THE VOTES ARE IN! Though we know all our contestants are beautiful in their own way, the winner of the 2009 Ugly Beauty Contest is...the lovely and critically endangered Vaquita. Thank you for you votes.
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(Art and photos courtesy of: B. Taylor; Tokyo Zoological Park Society; Tammy Frank; NOAA/MBARI 2002; Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA. All Rights Reserved. Please respect their copyrights)
WhaleTimes celebrates the beauty of all animals -- from slimy hagfish to tiny lumpsuckers to the shy and very endangered vaquita. We think all our Hagfish Day stars have won, because so many of you have discovered them and care about them, too!
Kids thoughts on why they thought on critter was the ugly-beauty:
Karen, from Southlake TX USA said: I voted for the hagfish. It's is so ugly only it's mother could love it. It looks like an overgrown slug with slimy antenna.
Grace, also from Southlake TX said: The Hagfish celebrates the beauty of ugly because it can make 2 gallons of slime in minutes. It is also Hagfish day today. Landry from Southlake, Texas adds: I chose the toad Lumpsucker because it sucks on things and it is so funny looking Anjali from Sydney Australia said: There is nothing attractive about the hagfish - from the slime to the way it feeds to its look. But it still does a really important job in the oceans as a scavenger. Drew from Grapevine, TX voted for the Toad Lumpsucker because, "The Toad Lumpsucker is cool because it can swallow water or air like a pufferfish and makes it puff!"
AB from Tualatin Oregon USA said: I picked the Toad Lumpsucker because I think they are cute!
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