By Carol Song, Trinity College Student
Do you love animals? Do you usually donate for the endangered animals when you see their cute pictures on the PSAs? Actually many people contribute their compassion when they are attached by something like this--a red panda!
Who do not love this fluffy creature with watery eyes!
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However, not all animals have fantastic looking, they may also look like that --a proboscis monkey, which has a fat and long nose, and also a fat belly.
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Although they may be not beautiful or cute in most people's minds, they are also endangered animals who urgently need our concerns. The proboscis monkey is not the only one, there are lots of "ugly" animals ignored by society. For example, the blobfish, which was named world's ugliest animal.
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The Chinese Pangolin, whole body covered hard scales.
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Or the Titicaca water frog, with so much brown skin.
Image via BBC News
Due to their appearance, people do not often put them in the PSAs, concerns for them are relatively low. However, "beauty" should not be the essential condition for saving endangered animals. Human beings have already hurt them by damaging the environment, we cannot hurt them again because of our prejudice. What we should do is to pay equal attention to all the living creatures needed help. Appearance anxiety is good for neither human nor endangered species. Please help the "ugly" ones, too!