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The hairless, baggy-skinned naked mole rat is so ugly that there's something oddly beautiful about it.
无毛、皮肤松弛的裸鼹鼠是如此丑陋，以至于有一种奇怪的美。
Who's to say what's beautiful and what's hideous? 谁来决定什么是美丽，什么是丑陋?
Animals sometimes evolve to catch admiring eyes, but often other evolutionary concerns take precedence over flashy feathers or athletic physiques. That said, the world is full of ugly animals. If you had to guess which animal is the ugliest, you might guess that some member of the pig family would win the title. But pigs don't even make our list when you put them beside naked mole rats and blobfish. So, here we go — according to our human sensibilities, here are 10 of the ugliest animals that live on our planet.
动物有时进化是为了吸引赞赏的目光，但通常其他的进化考虑优先于华丽的羽毛或运动的体格。也就是说，世界上到处都是丑陋的动物。如果你必须猜哪种动物最丑，你可能会猜猪家族的某个成员会赢得冠军。但当你把猪和裸鼹鼠和水滴鱼放在一起时，它们甚至都不在我们的名单上。所以，我们来看看——根据人类的感觉，这里有10种生活在我们这个星球上最丑陋的动物。
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California Condor 加州秃鹫
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Naked Mole Rat 裸鼹鼠
Blobfish 水滴鱼
Aye-aye 指猴
Proboscis Monkey 长鼻猴
Goblin Shark 妖精鲨鱼
Chinese Giant Salamander 中国大鲵
Hammer-headed Fruit Bat 锤头果蝠
Star-nosed Mole 星鼻鼹鼠
Southern Elephant Seal 南象海豹
1.California Condor 加州秃鹫
The California condor has slowly made a recovery from a population low of 22 wild animals in the 1980s.
加州秃鹰的数量已经从20世纪80年代的22只野生动物的低点缓慢恢复。
The California condor (
Gymnogyps californianus
) is a New World vulture and the largest land bird in North America. This critically endangered species makes the ugly animals list because of its fleshy, purplish-pink bald head, pudgy jowls, its black, feathery ruff and disdainful expression.
加利福尼亚秃鹰(Gymnogyps californianus)是一种新大陆秃鹰，也是北美最大的陆地鸟类。这种极度濒危的物种因其多肉、紫粉色的秃头、矮胖的下巴、黑色羽毛状的皱领和轻蔑的表情而登上了丑陋动物名单。
However, what the California condor lacks in conventional beauty, it makes up for in majesty. With a wingspan of up to 9 feet (2.7 meters), it can weigh up to 20 pounds (9 kilograms). Like other vultures, the California condor is a scavenger that feeds on the carcasses of large animals: deer, livestock like cows and pigs, and marine mammals like whales and sea lions.
然而，尽管加州秃鹰缺乏传统的美丽，但它的威严弥补了这一点。翼展可达9英尺(2.7米)，体重可达20磅(9公斤)。像其他秃鹫一样，加州秃鹰是一种食腐动物，以大型动物的身体为食:鹿，牛和猪等牲畜，以及鲸鱼和海狮等海洋哺乳动物。
California condors can soar as high as 15,000 feet (4,572 meters) and they nest in caves high on cliff faces.But the California condor might have gone extinct entirely in the 1980s, when lead poisoning whittled the population to 22 birds in the wild. These days about 275 wild members of the species soar over the Western U.S., and more than 160 live in captivity.
加州秃鹰可以飞到15000英尺(4572米)的高空，它们在悬崖峭壁上的洞穴里筑巢。但加州秃鹰可能在20世纪80年代就已经完全灭绝了，当时铅中毒使野生秃鹰数量减少到22只。如今，该物种的275个野生成员在国外西部翱翔，超过160个生活在圈养中。
2.Naked Mole Rat 裸鼹鼠
The naked mole rat looks like nothing more than a sack of baggy skin.
裸鼹鼠看起来不过是一袋松松的皮肤。
Of all the contenders for world's ugliest animal, the naked mole rat (
Heterocephalus glaber
) is the most similar to humans in appearance.The naked mole rat is hairless, with pink, baggy skin, poor eyesight and giant sharp teeth that can move independently from one another like chopsticks.The naked mole rat is one of the world's truly ugly animals, but it's also one of the most interesting creatures in the animal kingdom.
在世界上最丑动物的所有竞争者中，裸鼹鼠(Heterocephalus glaber)的外貌与人类最相似。裸鼹鼠没有毛，皮肤粉红色，松弛，视力不好，巨大的锋利牙齿可以像筷子一样独立移动。裸鼹鼠是世界上最丑陋的动物之一，但它也是动物王国里最有趣的生物之一。
Native to Eastern Africa, naked mole rats are not like other species of rodent. They live in communities like eusocial insects, with several dozen naked mole rats living together in a colony led by one dominant queen naked mole rat.Life underground in Sub-Saharan Africa is hard because there's not much air down there and snakes, their natural predators, are always around. Naked mole rats end up eating th
