And the best part is, with your purchase, you're supporting talented artists! All our cases feature high-quality prints that won't fade. Choose snap and tough cases to prevent breakage, or go for soft and design cases to add a unique touch to your iPhone. Weird Animal Question of the Week answers your questions every Saturday.Protect your iPhone and support artists with our amazing cases! Discover a wide range of styles, from soft and durable to sleek and personalized. Have a question about the weird and wild world? Tweet me, leave me a note in the comments, or find me on Facebook. "In short," Nittono says, "it is just funny." What’s your favorite ugly-cute animal? Let us know in the comments. Nittono agrees, suggesting people who see an "ugly" animal could experience a feeling of "whimsical cuteness" that doesn't activate our protective instincts–but rather a sense of joy and levity. (Related: " When We See Something Cute, Why Do We Want to Squeeze It?") Her example? Madagascar’s aye-aye, a nocturnal primate with crooked, skeletal fingers but large, cutiepie eyes. In other words, fawning over what most would say is an ugly animal is "a playful way" of embracing something outside the norm, according to Aragon. Ugly-cute reminds Clemson University psychologist Oriana Aragon of the "so bad it's good" aesthetic used in horror movies and other pockets of pop culture. When they saw pictures of adult cats and dogs, however, there was no difference in their performance.Īccording to the Ugly Animal Preservation Society, these are the five ugliest endangered animals. In a recent study led by Nittono, university students who played the children's game Operation improved their fine motor skills after viewing images of puppies and kittens. Nittono also discovered our cute baby obsession has a benefit: attention to detail. The gist of kimo kawaii is that, though an animal may seem off-putting at first, the viewer will "actually find it interesting and want to approach and know it a little more," Nittono says. Nittono says a Japanese kimo-kawaii picture book features meerkats, celestial eye godfish, and blue sea squirts. In Japan, land of huge-eyed anime and Hello Kitty, ugly-cute has its own name, kimo-kawaii, which roughly translates to "creepy-cute," says Hiroshi Nittono, director of the Cognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory at Osaka University.įor instance, the Japanese love the roach-like giant isopod so much they've made it into a hot-selling plush doll. These animals' baby-like traits make us think they're "in need of our companionship or care," which causes "the rush of warm emotion that is the cuteness response," says Joshua Dale, professor of foreign languages and literature at Tokyo Gakugei University and co-editor of The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness. (See " You Call That Cute? Here Are 10 Surprisingly Cute Critters.") Ugly-cute icons (at least according to our informal poll) include sleepy-looking sloths, doe-eyed tarsiers, deep-sea blobfish, squishy-looking desert rain frogs, and round-eyed jumping spiders. Austrian ethologist Konrad Lorenz coined this behavior as "baby schema." ( Read more why we find pandas and other animals so cute.) Turns out it's the same reason we are drawn to traditionally cute puppies and bunnies: Big eyes, large heads, and soft bodies are infantile qualities that trigger adult humans' instinct to nurture and protect, experts say. When Ben Patten asked Weird Animal Question of the Week what makes humans see animals as cute, we decided to look into the psychology of why we find some odd-looking animals adorable. Some may say yes-but in an ugly-cute kind of way.
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