Pretty sure we are the only animals with pink rings around our mouth. It’s flipping weird.
It probably helps with verbal language understanding as humans often use mouth movements to interpret words (see McGurk effect). But I still think it’s weird.
Big pink rings.
https://www.google.com/search?&q=red+lipped+batfish
https://www.google.com/search?&q=TONKIN+SNUB-NOSED+MONKEY
I googled weird lip animals and picked a couple
Those are both great and also emphasize how weird big high contrast lips are on animals.
Man, the Red-lipped Batfish is weird. It looks like someone made it in the Spore Creature Creator.
The Tonkin Snub Nosed Monkey is cute. It’s sad they’re critically endangered.
It’s been years since I watched a nature documentary and it’s nice learning about animals I was unaware of before today.
I think we have different ideas on what’s cute. Those monkeys are creepy.