What do you know about the ugliest animals on earth? Take this quiz and find out.

True or False?

1. The Chinese crested dog and the sphynx cat, being the ugliest of their kind, both have acne-prone skin.

 True

 False

2. Some of the tenrec’s barbed quills can detach and stick to predators.

 True

 False

3. The naked mole rat has very tiny eyes you almost can’t see.

 True

 False

4. Marabou storks are not just hideous physically — they also take pleasure in the equally hideous activity of eating corpses and feces.

 True

 False

5. The purple frog isn’t really purple. It’s color is actually neon pink.

 True

 False

6. Nothing can get stickier than the Japanese giant salamander, with its mucus-covered body and sticky and slimy excretion.

 True

 False

7. The elephant hawk moth caterpillar was so named because it grows as long as an elephant’s trunk.

 True

 False

8. The bulbous blob at the tip of a male gharial’s snout is hideous to humans but attractive to female gharials.

 True

 False

9. Take a blobfish out of the water and it will droop like a pile of blob.

 True

 False

10. The toothy viperfish’s unsightly appearance has earned it the nickname ogre fish.

 True

 False

Answers to the Ugliest Animals on Earth quiz:

1. True.
2. True.
3. True.
4. True.
5. False. They indeed have the unusual purple color. Adult purple frogs are dark purple in color.
6. True.
7. False. It was named the elephant hawk moth because its caterpillar’s head stretches into a thick, trunk-like snout.
8. True.
9. True.The blobfish has no skeleton and no muscles, so it will sag and slump and hang down when taken out of the water.
10. True.