Oriental Yeti

Yeti are hairless creatures and are said to be found in the China's remote woodlands. There is no more information from me or the Science world to say about this animal. All I know and heard of is - this Yeti is transported to Beijing by the Scientists to carry out the DNA tests for learning and trying to understand what exactly this animal is!

Here are some pictures of Original Yeti for you:

Ugly Animal Original Yeti

Apart from saying this looks as ugly as hell, I really feel pity towards this creature. I don't know why but I just do!

Baird Tapir

You sure must have heard of Tapirs.

Tapirs are Large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout

Now, talking about the, "Baird Tapir" they are the largest mammal found in Mexico up to South America. The statistics say these ugly animals grow 6.6 ft in length and 3.9 ft in height on an approximate rate. As if these Baird Tapirs are not ugly already, GOD has given them have only three toes on each back foot and four toes on each front foot.

I am not gonna try to justify why Baird Tapirs are ugly animals. I let the pictures do the job for you:

Ugly Animal Baird Tapir

Baird Tapir's Rear Foot

Little Lorikeets

Do you know what Lorikeets are? They are the smaller ones of "lories". Now, do not ask me what are lories :D

Lories are Small brightly colored Australasian parrots having a brush-tipped tongue for feeding on nectar and soft fruits

Here is the picture of a Lorie

You may even think - "Are you nuts? This is not ugly! This is nowhere near ugly and this can never be ugly in no one's eyes" I agree :)

This is plain beautiful and even attempting to call it ugly will be nothing but pure stupidity. If it is that beautiful why is it even here in this Ugly Animals blog then?

Now, that is a surprise! There is saying, "Even the little ones of a Pig look cute!" but hey there are exceptions always to every thing we say and this Lorikeets are an exception too! Do you want to see the little ones?

Okay, here is the Lorikeets that are just 12 days old. These are native to the East Coast Australia. While Lories are really beautiful their little ones still need some coloring to do. Until then they sure are Ugly!

Ugly Animals - Little Lorikeets

Vampire Flying Frog

This froggy creature is called as the "Vampire Flying Frog". Now for those who love Vampires this one may not look ugly :D

Ugly Animal Vampire Flying Frog

Coming to the facts, this Ugly Animal (Is Frog an Animal?) has been found in the mountain jungles of the Vietnam. This species was first found during 2008 and this 5 centimeter long frog is said to be found only in the cloud forests of Southern Vietnamese. This Ugly Animal glides from tree to tree using its webbed fingers and toes.

Now you may wonder why did I list here in the Ugly Animals - valid question! The uglier part is yet to come...

Guess what?

This Vampire frog tadpoles have small black fangs. The scientists found out in 2010 that its tadpoles have the strange curved black "fangs".

However, what the scientists do not yet understand is - what is the purpose of these fangs? Nevertheless, these frogs often feed their tadpoles by laying unfertilized eggs as meals. Now that is disgusting! There is a guess that these fangs could be helpful in slicing or slitting up those eggs, may be? :)

Impala | Aepyceros | Melampus

SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION
COMMON NAME: Impala
KINGDOM: Animalia
PHYLUM: Chordata
CLASS: Mammalia
ORDER: Artiodactyla
FAMILY: Bovidae
GENUS SPECIES: Aepyceros (long, lyre-shaped horns) Melampus (black-footed)

DESCRIPTION: The impala is a medium-sized antelope with a dark brown back fading to a medium brown flank and a white underbelly.
MALE Only the males have horns
SIZE: MALE 58-70 cm (23-28 in.) | FEMALE 58-64 cm (23-25 in.)
WEIGHT: MALE 45.5-79.5 kg (100-175 lb.) | FEMALE Smaller and lighter than males
DIET: Includes grasses, herbs, shrubs, and fruits
GESTATION: Gestation lasts approximately 6-7 months; female typically gives birth to a single offspring
SEXUAL MATURITY: Approximately 13 months, but rarely reproduces before 2 years
LIFE SPAN: 12-17 years
RANGE: Southern and Eastern Africa
HABITAT: Inhabits dry forests, gallery forests, level and mountain country
POPULATION: GLOBAL Unknown
STATUS: IUCN Lower Risk/Conservation Dependent

Impalas are an important food source for many larger predators, especially cheetahs, lions, hyenas, etc. Young impalas may be taken by birds of prey such as Martial eagles.

These animals are probably the most common and most commonly seen antelope in eastern Africa. One subspecies, the black-faced impala is endangered, but both species suffer from over-hunting.

Interesting facts about Seahorse

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Actinopterygii

Subclass: Neopterygii

Infraclass: Teleostei

Order: Syngnathiformes

Family: Syngnathidae

Subfamily: Hippocampinae

Genus: Hippocampus

Interesting facts about Seahorse

1. Each eye can move independently.
2. International protection was provided to seahorses on May 15th, 2004.
3. Seahorses differ in color, some are orange, red, yellow, green and even grey.
4. Zebra stripes and spots, are two patterns that seahorses come in.
5. A herd, is the term a group of seahorses are known as.
6. Seahorses have an interior skeleton.
7. Seahorses are unable to curl their tail backwards.
8. Seahorses belong to the Teleost suborder or bony fish group.
9. The average lifespan of a seahorse in the wild is estimated to be 1 to 5 years.
10. Seahorses beat their dorsal fins back and forth to propel themselves through the water in an upright position.
11. The pectoral fins are used to control steering and turning.
12. The food that seahorses eat pass into their digestive systems very quickly as they do not have a stomach and teeth. As the digestion procedure in seahorses is so quick they need to constantly eat to live.
13. Daphnia, cyclops, larvae or mysids are small living things that seahorses feed on.
14. A seahorse that is two weeks old can consume 3000 to 4000 brine shrimp in a day.
15. Seahorses have a single mate for life. Every morning, they come together, dance, change their color, twirl around with linked tails and then separate for the rest of the day.
16. While mating, seahorses utter musical sounds.
17. Mating is usually done under a full moon.
18. Seahorses are the only animals in the entire animal kingdom in which the male has babies. The female seahorse deposits the eggs into the male's small pouch, these eggs are then fertilized by the male.
19. These little creatures are at risk because about twenty-five million of them are being traded around the world, in a span of a year.

Interesting facts about Scallop

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Mollusca

Class: Bivalvia

Order: Ostreoida

Suborder: Pectinina

Superfamily: Pectinoidea

Family: Pectinidae

Interesting facts about Scallop

Has 100 eyes around the edge of the shell. These eyes are probably used to detect shadows of predators such as the starfish.