What are some animals that you love that many people find ugly/scary and disgusting

[Suave_Spencer]

Just to clear something up, spiders are not insects.

The duck-billed platypus is definitely one of the weirder things we have around at the moment. When it was discovered in (I think) the 19th century it was actually thought to be a hoax by the majority of English biologists. Probably didn't help that a lot of people were making fake animals at that time, mermaids for example. On that note, the Victorian English explorers and naturalists are some of my favourite ever scientists.

 

[Nami-Chan]

I've always thought cryptozoological taxidermy was kind of cool. Stitching wings onto turtle shells onto monkeys and whatnot. If I had lived in that era, I'd probably be into doing that in a less lying-to-science way.

I think no matter how disgusting and frightening you perceived an animal to be before, once you've read in any depth about its behavior patterns and appreciate its unique biological mechanisms, you can't help but get fascinated and excited and kind of make it your new favorite. IMO.

PS: OCTOPUS. are the best mollusks ever.

 

[dr_shrunk]

I think no matter how disgusting and frightening you perceived an animal to be before, once you've read in any depth about its behavior patterns and appreciate its unique biological mechanisms, you can't help but get fascinated and excited and kind of make it your new favorite. IMO.

That's actually what happened to make me Love spiders so much
I use to have a huge phobia of spiders, but when I learned more about them
I began to really respect the lil guys and soon began to really like them and find
them to be rather cute.

 

[R3i]

naja cobras, snakes in general

 

[Mercedes]

Aardvark's I did a report on them! No the are not anteaters

 

[Le Ham]

Cabbage.

Oh wait, that's not an animal. Aww...

 

[Sporge27]

The things that scare me most are the things I know could kill me rather simply, I mean this could be big things like an elephant, but also things like the mantis shrimp... if could punch through your ribs if it wanted I think. Anything poisonous too.

Thankfully most animals understand we can definitely take them down too so yeah, leave them alone they will most likely leave you alone. Mutually assured destruction at its finest.