Is this little guy ugly?
Okay, so it probably wouldn't win a Mammalia-wide beauty contest. And yes, it looks like a reject from Labyrinth. But is the aye-aye, as Slate
asserts, truly too ugly for people to care about? I mean, it's got really big ears! That's cute, right? And the nice round eyes! And the inquisitive-yet-endearing facial expression.
Okay, fine. Maybe most people are shallow. So maybe they could put "Ugly Betty"-style glasses on an aye-aye and make T-shirts. Or maybe they could market aye-aye conservation efforts to horror and science-fiction conventions.