Ugliest Baby Animals
Well … they aren’t ugly … just bad looking … but they are animals and grow to be beautiful.
Shar Pei - Beautiful babies

The Shar Pei is a breed of dog that originated in China and has the distinctive features of deep wrinkles and a blue-black tongue. The name (沙皮, pinyin: shā pí; English name probably derived from British spelling of Cantonese equivalent sā pèih) translates to “sand skin,” and refers to the texture of its short, rough coat. As puppies, Shar Pei have lots of wrinkles, but as they mature, the wrinkles disappear as they “grow into their skin”. Shar pei’s were once named as one of the world’s rarest dog breeds by Time magazine and the Guinness Book of World Records, and the American Kennel Club did not recognize the breed until 1991.
And now you can see an adult Shar Pei … it doesn’t look to bad.

Now that you seen something that it’s as cute as it can be … let’s start with the ugliest.
5. The Sloth

The living sloths are omnivores. They may eat insects, small lizards and carrion, but their diet consists mostly of buds, tender shoots, and leaves, mainly of Cecropia trees. They have made extraordinary adaptations to an arboreal browsing lifestyle. Leaves, their main food source, provide very little energy or nutrition and do not digest easily: sloths have very large, specialized, slow-acting stomachs with multiple compartments in which symbiotic bacteria break down the tough leaves. As much as two-thirds of a well-fed sloth’s body-weight consists of the contents of its stomach, and the digestive process can take as long as a month or more to complete.
The adult sloth doesn’t look to good either:

4. Giant Pandas

The Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca, “black-and-white cat-foot”; traditional Chinese: 大熊貓; simplified Chinese: 大熊猫; pinyin: Dàxióngmāo; literally: “big bear cat”) is a mammal classified in the bear family, Ursidae, native to central-western and southwestern China. The panda was previously thought to be a member of the Procyonidae. It is easily recognized by its large, distinctive black patches around the eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. Though belonging to the order Carnivora, the panda has a diet which is 99% bamboo. Pandas may eat other foods such as honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges and bananas.
The adults are just so cute:
3. Naked Mole Rat

The naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber), also known as the sand puppy, or desert mole rat is a burrowing rodent native to parts of East Africa and the only species currently classified in genus Heterocephalus. It is notable for its eusocial lifestyle, nearly unique among mammals, and for a highly unusual set of physical traits that enables it to thrive in a harsh, underground environment; including a lack of pain sensation in its skin, and a nearly cold-blooded metabolism.
If you think the babies are ugly … just take a look at the adult.

2. Robins

Honestly, most birds are disgusting as chicks. Those feathers cover up a lot of ugly. I chose robins because you’re likely to come across one in your lifetime and they’re pretty gross. Other acceptable ugly birds would have been pigeons, owls, buzzards, and cockatoos. I tried to think of a really pretty bird chick, but I couldn’t think of any. I’m sure they’re out there, but they’re vastly outnumbered by the number of ugly bird babies.
The adult is beautiful.

1. Hedgehogs

A hedgehog is any of the small spiny mammals of the subfamily Erinaceinae and the order Erinaceomorpha. There are 16 species of hedgehog in five genera, found through parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and New Zealand. There are no hedgehogs native to Australia, and no living species native to North America; those in New Zealand are introduced. Hedgehogs have changed little over the last 15 million years. Like many of the first mammals they have adapted to a nocturnal, insectivorous way of life. The name ‘hedgehog’ came into use around the year 1450, derived from the Middle English ‘heyghoge’, from ‘heyg’, ‘hegge’ = hedge, because it frequents hedgerows, and ‘hoge’, ‘hogge’ = hog, from its piglike snout. Other folk names include ‘urchin’, ‘hedgepig’ and ‘furze-pig’.
The adults are just to stingy
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February 27th, 2008 at 8:01 pm[...] Pantherkut wrote this today. I think it is worth reading. Here is a little snippet:Shar pei’s were once named as one of the world’s rarest dog breeds by Time magazine and the Guinness Book of World Records, and the American Kennel Club did not recognize the breed until 1991. And now you can see an adult Shar Pei … it … [...]

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