In my mammalogy class this semester, we had a discussion about what we considered to be the "creepiest" mammal and why. I ended up choosing the Uakari, but I'm curious as to what other people would say! Although all animals are beautiful in their own way
Aye-Ayes definitely have one of the 'creepiest' looks for a mammal. The elongated, bony fingers tipped with claws, an opossum-like coat, and a large hollow stare are the perfect mix of off-putting features. Yet I like them all the more so for it. Whenever I've seen them in the dark rooms of a zoo, I have never felt afraid and I always feel much more in awe and appreciative of their unique morphology. 'Creepy' only in the sense that they seem like they should be frightening, but they never are so.
Not to mention the interesting local belief that tells how the person an Aye-aye points its finger at will die.
I'd have to say some sort of primate. I'd agree somewhere between chimps and aye-ayes, but I think the chimp takes the cake. They look creepy, uncanny, and could also rip me to shreds if it tried, possibly for fun.
Humans. We're giant deformed monkeys with bare skin badly covered with coarse tufts of waving hairs, as if we're suffering a hair disease. We have a strange bulge in our nostrils, and another prominent bulge in the chin. Our head hair is so long (if left uncutted) that we look a sort of fancy breed domestic animal. Our eyes show the white eyeball, even if half closed. We must cover our body with pieces of thrash. We communicate each other using a strange noise, that in certains situations becomes a really creepy scream, especially in our very juvenile stage. Thats what, for example, an antelope or a bird could think about human physical appareance. Besides physical, there is of course also the fact that we behave as if designed especifically for destroy everything in the Earth and if we're allergic to beauty, so we humans also have a creepy behaviour.
Everyone normalises giraffes because they’re a very popular abc animal. But thinking about them: a thin lanky horse looking thing with telephone pole for a neck and thin long spindly legs; a carpet pattern on their backs, a blue tongue, ossicones, and the ability to kick things to death. That sounds like something that wouldn’t be far off a horror movie. The slenderman of animals, if you will
Tarsiers' enormous eyes and elongated fingers give them give them a somewhat sinister appearance which, coupled with the fact that they are the only entirely carnivorous primates, make tarsiers possibly the "creepiest" mammal. I've always been fascinated by tarsiers; sadly I doubt I'll ever see any more in Europe.
Spider monkeys have their weird thumbless hands and look weirder than gibbons and gorillas when they walk on two legs.
I don’t consider any animals creepy other than certain humans. Only certain humans, though. Of course there is also just plain ugly, but I’m not gonna get into to that for the sake of not offending certain tiktokers.
My bad I think it was all species of animals, then it would have to be Tigers as they can mimic sounds of their prey giving them a false sense of security
