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The face of the minger. It's not a title any mother would wish for her child, unless of course she's a mother blobfish, when her heart would swell with love at the sight of the pale smeary features with their patina of slime and the little currant eyes, soon to become the image of the Ugly Animal Preservation Society. Anthropomorphic lookism has been too powerful a force for too long in the animal kingdom, distorting priorities and elevating – just as one example – furry predators with fetching black eyebrows and jaws like gin traps (that's the badger) over their daily diet of less picturesque baby hedgehogs and voles. The blobfish has something better than the regular features and soft contours of conventional beauty: with its droopy mouth and gelatinous cheeks, it has an appealing vulnerability. Unfortunately, not enough to tug at the heartstrings of deep-sea trawlermen fishing off the Australian coast, for whom it's just collateral damage.The face of the minger. It's not a title any mother would wish for her child, unless of course she's a mother blobfish, when her heart would swell with love at the sight of the pale smeary features with their patina of slime and the little currant eyes, soon to become the image of the Ugly Animal Preservation Society. Anthropomorphic lookism has been too powerful a force for too long in the animal kingdom, distorting priorities and elevating – just as one example – furry predators with fetching black eyebrows and jaws like gin traps (that's the badger) over their daily diet of less picturesque baby hedgehogs and voles. The blobfish has something better than the regular features and soft contours of conventional beauty: with its droopy mouth and gelatinous cheeks, it has an appealing vulnerability. Unfortunately, not enough to tug at the heartstrings of deep-sea trawlermen fishing off the Australian coast, for whom it's just collateral damage.
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