Ugly Animal Preservation Society

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The Ugly Animal Preservation Society is a

pandas attract disproportionate amounts of funding that could be better spent elsewhere.[3] The organisation aims to protect less attractive animals such as the proboscis monkey which also face threats.[4]

The first show was held in London in October 2012, with additional events elsewhere including at the 2013

Edinburgh Science Festival, the Green Man Festival in Wales, the Winchester Science Festival, The British Science Festival, Bristol Big Green Week and other events and festivals around the country.[6]

Simon comperes each evening where between six and eight

Dan Schreiber, Sarah Bennetto, Suzi Ruffell, Steve Cross
, Dean Burnett and Iszi Lawrence.

Current ugly animal mascots include: for London, the

Titicaca water frog; for Brighton, the naked mole-rat and for Newcastle the dugong
.

Promachoteuthis sulcus, championed by Jennifer Harrison, was elected to be the Edinburgh mascot. Jennifer referred to it as the "gob faced squid" because of its disturbingly human-like mouth. This name has since been adopted as the common name for the species.[7][8]

In September 2012 the Ugly Animal Preservation Society teamed up with the National Science and Engineering Competition[9] to create some online educational resources including eleven election style videos allowing people world wide to vote for what should become the general mascot for the society. The campaign gained international press coverage and was supported online by tweets from many celebrities including Stephen Fry, Liz Bonnin and Simon Pegg.[10] Votes were counted by monitoring the number of likes on each of the election videos.

The winning animal, declared the ugliest animal on Earth, championed by Paul Foot and the official mascot of the society is the blobfish.[11][12][13]

References

  1. ^ McCartney, Jenny (2013-09-14). "Ignorance of finances has cost us dear". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2013-10-11. [...] the plainer life forms are woefully ignored.
  2. ^ "Comedy Preview: The Ugly Animal Preservation Society". Londonist. 1 October 2012.
  3. ^ a b Hall, Duncan (22 February 2013). "Ugly Animal Preservation Society". Brighton Argus.
  4. The Telegraph (London). Archived from the original
    on 12 June 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  5. ^ Makin, Simon (March 2, 2013). "The Ugly Animal Society – Review (Brighton Sci Fest)". Guru Magazine.
  6. ^ "Book Tickets".
  7. ^ "My top 5 weirdest animals".
  8. ^ "In praise of ugly animals".
  9. ^ "Ugly animal vote".
  10. ^ Hall, John (August 27, 2013). "The ugliest animals on earth: Blobfish, axolotl and proboscis monkey battle it out to be named least attractive beast". The Independent.
  11. ^ Bates, Mary (12 September 2013). "What's the World's Ugliest Animal?". National Geographic. Archived from the original on September 14, 2013. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
  12. ^ Starkey, Natalie (12 September 2013). "Blobfish voted world's ugliest animal". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
  13. ^ Victoria Gill (12 September 2013). "Blobfish wins ugliest animal vote". BBC. Retrieved 13 September 2013.

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