The world's ugliest animals - in pictures
The blobfish has been voted world's ugliest animal after a campaign set up by the Ugly Animal Preservation Society to raise awareness for endangered and aesthetically challenged animals - some the finest examples of which can be seen here
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Cheer up; you're a winner: The blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus), a species that lives at great depths and is rarely seen but resembles a marine Jabba the Hut, has been voted the world's ugliest animal. It inhabits the deep waters off the coasts of the Australian mainland and Tasmania
Photograph: REX/Greenpeace
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Need a face lift? A naked mole rat
Photograph: Antonio Olmos
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Still popular with the ladies: after securing a huge harem of females a battle-scarred male southern elephant seal appears to chuckle at Gold Harbour, South Georgia, Antarctic Peninsula
Photograph: Justin Hofman/Barcroft Media
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A male proboscis monkey in Singapore. With a rather large nose, which is said to be attractive to its mates, it also has a very bloated and gassy stomach caused by its love of eating unripe fruit
Photograph: Tim Chong/Reuters/Corbis
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The Titicaca water frog, named after the South American lake where it lives, has also been dubbed the 'aquatic scrotum frog'
Photograph: REX/Peter Oxford/Nature Pictur
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Got my good side? A star-nosed mole
Photograph: Ken Catania/Visuals Unlimited/Corbis
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Eye-eye: a baby aye-aye, an unusual mammal native to Madagascar
Photograph: REX/Lewis Whyld
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The axolotl, a salamander that can regenerate its own limbs
Photograph: Alamy
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A mudmask might help: a warthog with red-billed oxpeckers standing on it in South Africa
Photograph: Kerstin Geier/Getty Images/Gallo Images
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Mirror mirror, who's the fairest of them all? Common celestial goldfish
Photograph: Alamy
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Sitting pretty: a kakapo, a giant flightless parrot, calling on Codfish Island in New Zealand
Photograph: Alamy
