In the animal world, as in our own, looks aren’t everything. In fact, some of the most aesthetically challenged creatures — from warthogs and proboscis monkeys to bull elephant seals — are also the most fascinating. A stunning variety of these ghastly yet glorious forms are explored in NATURE’s The Beauty of Ugly.
On the Web site for The Beauty of Ugly, you’ll get an in-depth look at some of these intriguing creatures. You’ll learn about the remarkable sensory abilities of the weird little star-nosed mole and the unusual social system of naked mole-rats and their imperious mole-rat queen, discover the threats faced by the Cape Griffon vulture, and get a fish-eye’s view of the needle-toothed viperfish and other deep-sea creatures, as photographed by a unique undersea camera called the Eye-in-the-Sea, designed by ocean researcher Dr. Edith Widder.
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Online content for The Beauty of Ugly was originally posted online November 2007.
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06/27/2008 :: 09:06:19 AM
Bridget Bordelon Says:
I would like to take this time to thank PBS for producing some wonderful programs that helps teachers provide background knowledge for so many content-related activities. Making these lessons/programs available online allows me to bring information and ideas from around the world to a group of children who live in a very rural and economically depressed area. Your programs allow them to experience parts of the world that most, if not all, of them will never visit. Thanks for helping open their eyes to beauty of our world and the problems that face us each day.