Taiwan Province province's ETtoday Dongsen News Cloud website reported on March 8th that Fleming, a wildlife biologist at Murdoch University in Australia, said that this prejudice will have a potential impact on animal protection, and if we ignore these ugly animals, it will have a great impact on the ecology.
She said: "For most species, all researchers can do is catalogue them to show their existence. And we need to record their diet, habitat selection, activity space and reproduction to identify threats and facilitate protection. " And said: "Researchers are reluctant to study these unfamiliar species, perhaps because they are afraid that their papers are too narrow or have limited interest, so they cannot be published."
Her collaborators also said that in the past, about 20 kinds of mammals were extinct because of ignoring ugly animals, and more than 20 other rare animals were on the verge of extinction. It would be a tragedy if more animals died out and we knew nothing about them.