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Ugly endangered animals ignored as 'cute' bias harms conservation efforts (www.abc.net.au)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ugly endangered animals

Then shows the cutest little fluffy bat ever??

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Bats are friends !

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Natural selection : they have to evolve until they are cute. No reason to protect evolution dead ends. /Sarcasm !

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Maybe we should have told your mom then /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Well it’s well documented humans outproprtionally case about mammals

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I thought Ugly was in fashion right now... but it's so last season apparently 🤷

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

One of my instructors in ecology class, charismatic megafauna, basically animals that are iconic, cute or furry. Ignores all insects,,etc there "ugly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

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