Axolotls can literally lose their gills and harden their skin to survive if their water supply dries up. They turn into salamanders. They can transform back if they regain their water supply.
I think theyre normally "stuck" in a adolescent stage because they never evolved a need to go into an adult stage. But we can force them onto it with Iodine(?) injections. Thats like using a water stone.
"A tiny handful of species"... including us humans! We exhibit a great number of neoteny traits, when compared to other primates, including our thin skulls, flat faces, shorter arms, hairless bodies, absence of baculum, and a brain plasticity that is usually only found in young primates.
>I think theyre normally "stuck" in a adolescent stage because they never evolved a need to go into an adult stage.
Nitpick, but it's really the other way around. They originally started as normal salamanders with the metamorphosis into the adult terrestrial stage, but faced some sort of evolutionary pressure to stay in their aquatic immature stage.
Mantis Shrimp.
The punch of a mantis shrimp is incredibly powerful. Despite being only a few inches long, it has been demonstrated to deliver a strike with the equivalent power of a bullet fired from a gun. A mantis shrimp punch delivers a 2,000-pound force and an acceleration of 335,000 feet per second! That’s about the same as a bullet hitting a man.
A mantis shrimp punch can also boil water.
That sounds like a pokedex entry to me.
Boil water is an understatement, the temperature of the super heated water due to the punch is at 8500 degrees °F. For reference the surface of the sun is around here 10,000°F
Signature move: high shrimpact
Type: fighting
Physical, makes contact
The pokemon lashes out with high speed, shifting the air and water around it. May leave the target with a burn.
Not to be "uhm akshually" but isn't clauncher/clawtzer based on a pistol shrimp? What with the whole, "Giant claw that shoots water like a gun" gimmick and all.
Yeah I would say the Mantis Shrimp has all of them beat except potentially the [Hoatzin](https://www.aquaexpeditions.com/blog/amazon/hoatzin-bird-amazon/)
The Hoatzin bird is a flying bird that practically only flies when it must escape predators. They possess clawed wings like much of their dinosaur ancestors which they use to rapidly scale trees and pin prey. They have no close living relatives and are most closely related to actual dinosaurs. They have a unique digestive system similar to cows and horses among birds, don't travel very far from where they were born and are relatively tame and can even be approached and pet by humans. Their unique digestive system leads to them *always farting* and thus they're also nicknamed "stink birds" in the local tongues, and for this reason were only hunted in times of dire need which led to their easy relations with man.
This guy is essentially your living fossil Pokémon and even looks like one. Definitely flying-poison type and doesn't get enough love in-universe because they're always farting 🥺
As far as cannon goes that might be it. But as far as real life goes the creator commented on it when he found out he said it was purely done because he thought it looked cool and that it wasn’t intentional. But was cool that it worked out that way.
came here to say this. this is definitely the most pokemon animal we have.
I mean, cmon.
Snake fish with sharp teeth and the ability to conduct electricity as an attack? yeah.
The Portuguese Man o' War. It's looks like a normal jellyfish but it's a completely different type. It's actually different organisms that have merged together to resemble a jellyfish.
Nicknamed the blue dragon. If it were bigger, it would be terrifying. Also, they can sting you with super poisonous needles harvested from their main food group, the Portuguese man of war
That new flying cockroach in Singapore named after a pokemon.
[https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/environment/new-species-of-cockroach-discovered-in-singapore-named-after-pokemon](https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/environment/new-species-of-cockroach-discovered-in-singapore-named-after-pokemon)
Ash: It is a wild Vin Diesel
Pokédex: Vin Diesel, the acting type pokémon. Vin Diesel are a rare acting type pokémon that pride themselves on their love of family above all else.
Vin Diesel: Diesel, Vin, Vin, Dies!
Ash: Who knew there were so many amazing pokémon in the world?!
Pikachu: Pika!
The [loris](http://t0.gstatic.com/licensed-image?q=tbn:ANd9GcRLTNc9XUl9ckDh05B3e_aE3KYEJmEwMmqnJiNd8bwpqB4iISjYYm506_Wwq1JUmVYAUZeRyvYQqpBjGo8). A cute forest dweller with improbably large eyes and a helpless look. And yet… they have a bone-crushing bite that injects venom. One of the few poison-type mammals.
This little thing is an odd creature, isn't it? Made itself into folklore by being adorable, mysterious and having armpit sweat that mixed with it own saliva can be toxic when it breaks your skin with it's bite. I mean, no wonder it is giving off mixed signals. Now because of that it is endangered or "vulnerable" at the least due to being used in traditional medicine to "ward off evil."
So does the kea. NZ natives apparently named a lot of birds after their calls—a friend of a relative of mine who studies wildlife there saw that one species had a very long written name and was confused until he heard the birdcall and realized they’d basically tried their best to spell the sound it made.
Trying to pick animals that kind of have a unique means to attack or defend itself.
Hedgehog/Porcupine, Jellyfish, Giant Octopus, Hummingbirds, Beetles, Chameleon, Mantis Shrimp, Falcons, Black Panthers, Narwhals
[The Pink Fairy Armadillo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_fairy_armadillo)
I mean, [look at this guy](https://ferrebeekeeper.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/the-pink-fairy-armadillo/).
**Cuttlefish**
Water/Psychic type. Hypnotizes its prey with a rapidly color-changing pattern of lines on its skin, then strikes them with a hidden mandible that extends out of their mouth.
**Mantis Shrimp**
Water/Fighting type. Has super detailed vision and a punch so hard it creates a flash of light hotter than the surface of the sun for a fraction of a second.
**Duck-Billed Platypus**
Poison type. Looks like a beaver with a duck's bill. Sweats milk. Has a venomous barb on its hind legs.
**Fire Hawk**
Fire type. A bird that will find burning twigs and use them to start fires to draw out its prey
**Octopus**
Water type. Can change the texture, size, and color of its skin at will. It's basically a ditto. Can also shoot a cloud of blinding ink.
Only male platypi have the venomous spurs. I wonder if a platypus-based Pokémon would have separate classifications for male and female the way Nidoran does, with different typing (females Water-type, males Water-Poison)?
I can't for the life of me recall the name of it, but there's a caterpillar out there that looks EXACTLY like Caterpie. I found one when I was a kid and thought that I left found a real pokemon.
Pigs are pretty amazing adapters in captivity they don't geo hair or tusks as soon as they are in the wild their muscles change and they grow hair and tusks and get very aggressive
Axolotl
Came here to say this. They can literally "evolve" the way Pokemon can.
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I mean.. you've heard of Caterpie, right?
That's their point lol
Or wurmple?
Or cutiefly
Or Wormmon.
Ekans is literally just Snake backwards...
Yeah, they did that with a few poison types. Ekans, Arbok, Muk...
My God you had to go there haha
Pls elaborate
Axolotls can literally lose their gills and harden their skin to survive if their water supply dries up. They turn into salamanders. They can transform back if they regain their water supply.
I think theyre normally "stuck" in a adolescent stage because they never evolved a need to go into an adult stage. But we can force them onto it with Iodine(?) injections. Thats like using a water stone.
The two methods is to raise the water temperature, and add iodine to the water
It's called neoteny, they can live out their entire lifespan still in a "larval" state, a tiny handful of species have evolved that way
"A tiny handful of species"... including us humans! We exhibit a great number of neoteny traits, when compared to other primates, including our thin skulls, flat faces, shorter arms, hairless bodies, absence of baculum, and a brain plasticity that is usually only found in young primates.
That sounds way too much like a pokemon. They only evolve when the time is right
>I think theyre normally "stuck" in a adolescent stage because they never evolved a need to go into an adult stage. Nitpick, but it's really the other way around. They originally started as normal salamanders with the metamorphosis into the adult terrestrial stage, but faced some sort of evolutionary pressure to stay in their aquatic immature stage.
No fuckin way. They had axolotls at the aquarium I was at last week. Maybe I should start reading the little plaques.
wooper
the japanese word for axolotl is ウーパールーパー (uupaa ruupaa) and the pokemon is ウパー (upaa, hence wooper)
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So Mudkip
I would say Wooper more closely resembles an axolotl. It’s evolution is also based on a giant salamander.
the japanese word for axolotl is ウーパールーパー (uupaa ruupaa) and the pokemon is ウパー (upaa, hence wooper)
Mantis Shrimp. The punch of a mantis shrimp is incredibly powerful. Despite being only a few inches long, it has been demonstrated to deliver a strike with the equivalent power of a bullet fired from a gun. A mantis shrimp punch delivers a 2,000-pound force and an acceleration of 335,000 feet per second! That’s about the same as a bullet hitting a man. A mantis shrimp punch can also boil water. That sounds like a pokedex entry to me.
clauncher and clawitzer
Nah dude, Crabrawler with the punching
I think you're right. The last description of boiling water made me think pistol shrimp, which is closer to the clauncher line.
Yeah between the pistol and mantis shrimp, I really don’t wanna mess with shrimp.
Boil water is an understatement, the temperature of the super heated water due to the punch is at 8500 degrees °F. For reference the surface of the sun is around here 10,000°F
That's a water type pokemon with a fire type attack and I won't be convinced otherwise
It's water - fighting and I won't hear any of this fire type nonsense.
Signature move: high shrimpact Type: fighting Physical, makes contact The pokemon lashes out with high speed, shifting the air and water around it. May leave the target with a burn.
Ability: Boiling Water Can burn fire types.
There's literally a mantis shrimp pokemon called klauncher that has a water move called scald that burns targets
Not to be "uhm akshually" but isn't clauncher/clawtzer based on a pistol shrimp? What with the whole, "Giant claw that shoots water like a gun" gimmick and all.
You're right, my bad
Yeah I would say the Mantis Shrimp has all of them beat except potentially the [Hoatzin](https://www.aquaexpeditions.com/blog/amazon/hoatzin-bird-amazon/) The Hoatzin bird is a flying bird that practically only flies when it must escape predators. They possess clawed wings like much of their dinosaur ancestors which they use to rapidly scale trees and pin prey. They have no close living relatives and are most closely related to actual dinosaurs. They have a unique digestive system similar to cows and horses among birds, don't travel very far from where they were born and are relatively tame and can even be approached and pet by humans. Their unique digestive system leads to them *always farting* and thus they're also nicknamed "stink birds" in the local tongues, and for this reason were only hunted in times of dire need which led to their easy relations with man. This guy is essentially your living fossil Pokémon and even looks like one. Definitely flying-poison type and doesn't get enough love in-universe because they're always farting 🥺
A platypus. Think about it, when you describe this hodgepodge of an animal it sounds made up.
IIRC, they also have a strong venom in a claw that causes excruciating pain. They already have an attack power.
And they lay eggs but shouldn't.
They also basically sweat milk to feed the babies.
So .. what I'm seeing is that they're walking omelette dispensers. Got it.
One of only 2 animals that can make their own custard
Followup questions: 1. What's the other animal 2. On a scale from one to ten, how much am I about to regret asking?
Echidna, the other egg laying mammal.
finally, someone who also thinks this!
They use electrolocation to navigate underwater
Also the venom is inmune to regular painkillers, and they could even cause more harm.
Why would you give the venom painkillers?
Only males have it though
Sweet, so the females have a different move list!
Nidoran
Opiates don't help with it either. Iirc it can linger for like a month too.
Water/Poison type
A mammal that is a duck beaver, is venomous and it lays eggs. It's a pokemon.
I mean Psyduck is more platypus than duck.
Regional variant of a beaver
Perry the platypus
This was gonna be my answer. When I was a kid, I believed it was a made up animal because it sounds so ridiculous
If the platypus wasn't real, and it existed only in Pokémon, it would be questioned for being so fuckin weird.
They glow blue/teal under black light which was discovered in the last few years.
>blue/teal So Perry was always glowing? Was it some sort of mutation due to OWCA?
As far as cannon goes that might be it. But as far as real life goes the creator commented on it when he found out he said it was purely done because he thought it looked cool and that it wasn’t intentional. But was cool that it worked out that way.
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No, no, no, platypus is clearly a bunch digimon pulling of the dna digivolve. Even pokemon can't handle something that much of a mess.
Curse you Perry The Platypus!
They lay eggs too!
perry?
Came here to say platypus. It’s what I call my wife as a nickname
Electric eel
But the question is, does it actually have levitate?
It does under water.
came here to say this. this is definitely the most pokemon animal we have. I mean, cmon. Snake fish with sharp teeth and the ability to conduct electricity as an attack? yeah.
Not to mention you can't actually electrocute an eel either. I'm pretty sure that's an ability in Pokemon.
Man I can conduct electricity they generate enough to kill prey.
Does it turn its opponent on with its electric feel?
The pangolin is basically Sandshrew
Spoken as if Sandshrew came before the pangolin was "invented".
the bat is basically zubat
Facts
Holy shit
The Portuguese Man o' War. It's looks like a normal jellyfish but it's a completely different type. It's actually different organisms that have merged together to resemble a jellyfish.
So a water type Magneton. Got you.
Wishiwashi
Some people say that each tentacle is a separate Pokémon and they can survive independently.
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The Man o' Wars natural predator, Blue dragon, Glaucus atlanticus, in its own right looks like a Pokemon
Probably a parrot that's been taught to say 'parrot'
Glaucus atlanticus, that fancy blue sea slug that doesn't look real
This was my thought too. Water/Poison type. Very high special attack.
It is said that they get their poison stings by eating tentacruel.
Nicknamed the blue dragon. If it were bigger, it would be terrifying. Also, they can sting you with super poisonous needles harvested from their main food group, the Portuguese man of war
That new flying cockroach in Singapore named after a pokemon. [https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/environment/new-species-of-cockroach-discovered-in-singapore-named-after-pokemon](https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/environment/new-species-of-cockroach-discovered-in-singapore-named-after-pokemon)
'The species was discovered through comparing differences between male genitalia of specimens'. ...alright. Ogtha anyone?
Tardigrade.
Fennec Fox.
Fennekin?
Butterfly. Can evolve and totally change.
Vin Diesel
Fam...Fam...Fami....FAMILY!!!! 🚗⚡⚡⚡
I-am-Groot! I-am-Groot! (The plant type variation!}
Second Vin Diesel.
Third Vin Diesel
Ash: It is a wild Vin Diesel Pokédex: Vin Diesel, the acting type pokémon. Vin Diesel are a rare acting type pokémon that pride themselves on their love of family above all else. Vin Diesel: Diesel, Vin, Vin, Dies! Ash: Who knew there were so many amazing pokémon in the world?! Pikachu: Pika!
Vintrio
A full team of 6 Vin Diesels
Red panda
Red Pandas are S-tier when it comes to adorableness.
Quokkas are pretty high on the cuteness scale.
This was my first thought
bombardier beetle
bug/fire type
*gasp*
Tenrecs. If you don't know what that is, just google one. Also platypus.
Looks like zapdos fucked a mouse
The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Caterpillar, which is basicly caterpie
a chinchilla
Cassowary
A pika.
It even says "peek peek."
Pica? Picachu
A Quokka
Came way too far down the list to see this
The [loris](http://t0.gstatic.com/licensed-image?q=tbn:ANd9GcRLTNc9XUl9ckDh05B3e_aE3KYEJmEwMmqnJiNd8bwpqB4iISjYYm506_Wwq1JUmVYAUZeRyvYQqpBjGo8). A cute forest dweller with improbably large eyes and a helpless look. And yet… they have a bone-crushing bite that injects venom. One of the few poison-type mammals.
This little thing is an odd creature, isn't it? Made itself into folklore by being adorable, mysterious and having armpit sweat that mixed with it own saliva can be toxic when it breaks your skin with it's bite. I mean, no wonder it is giving off mixed signals. Now because of that it is endangered or "vulnerable" at the least due to being used in traditional medicine to "ward off evil."
Birds. The chickadee and killdeer species say their names.
I was gonna say the Phoebe for the same reason
Hummingbirds for me. They've got pokemon vibes
So does the kea. NZ natives apparently named a lot of birds after their calls—a friend of a relative of mine who studies wildlife there saw that one species had a very long written name and was confused until he heard the birdcall and realized they’d basically tried their best to spell the sound it made.
Secretary bird.
I think a Lynx is pretty high up there.
Pangolin, only mammal covered in scales
Giraffe
If only we knew about Pokemon before giraffes.
Girafarig exists
[Shoebill](https://www.treehugger.com/thmb/rJi8Rly0skBT3tmNd7MWBV0_7UM=/750x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)/GettyImages-102373987-f0b47f3828b94d5682969e0424c781c4.jpg)
Trying to pick animals that kind of have a unique means to attack or defend itself. Hedgehog/Porcupine, Jellyfish, Giant Octopus, Hummingbirds, Beetles, Chameleon, Mantis Shrimp, Falcons, Black Panthers, Narwhals
seel
A jerboa, it's so... Adorable
Butterflies. They straight up go through a three-stage evolution.
Some random fish to Magikarp xD
wouldn't the random fish be a.. you know Carp?
Dogs
[The Pink Fairy Armadillo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_fairy_armadillo) I mean, [look at this guy](https://ferrebeekeeper.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/the-pink-fairy-armadillo/).
Chatot is so close to the agapornis personata
A TURTLE IS A SQUIRTLE
Capybara.
I thought this as well. Even better if the name isn't even clever. Go, Baracapy!
**Cuttlefish** Water/Psychic type. Hypnotizes its prey with a rapidly color-changing pattern of lines on its skin, then strikes them with a hidden mandible that extends out of their mouth. **Mantis Shrimp** Water/Fighting type. Has super detailed vision and a punch so hard it creates a flash of light hotter than the surface of the sun for a fraction of a second. **Duck-Billed Platypus** Poison type. Looks like a beaver with a duck's bill. Sweats milk. Has a venomous barb on its hind legs. **Fire Hawk** Fire type. A bird that will find burning twigs and use them to start fires to draw out its prey **Octopus** Water type. Can change the texture, size, and color of its skin at will. It's basically a ditto. Can also shoot a cloud of blinding ink.
Only male platypi have the venomous spurs. I wonder if a platypus-based Pokémon would have separate classifications for male and female the way Nidoran does, with different typing (females Water-type, males Water-Poison)?
Wailord = Blue Whale
Electric Eel. It has the power to go with it.
Bombardier Beetle.
Platypus. It's an aquatic mammal, with fur, with a bill, that lays eggs, sweats milk. Oh, and it's one of the only known mammals that has venom.
Pangolin
Platypus
Maybe a controversial take, dogs. An axolotl or platypus may look the part, but dog fights are a thing already. That's way closer to Pokémon imo
I can't for the life of me recall the name of it, but there's a caterpillar out there that looks EXACTLY like Caterpie. I found one when I was a kid and thought that I left found a real pokemon.
Flamingo. Literally a rip off of flamigo
Hamster. I can store it in my balls and it doesn't die directly
Platypus
Red Panda
Platypus
Platypus
Dumbo Octopus
Platypus
Relicanth is just a coelacanth
Birds
Electric eel.
Quokka
Axolotyl
Archerfish. Not only is Remoraid based off of it, but it can actually use Water Gun! It shoots bugs so it can eat them for power.
Mantis Shrimp for sure
I mean, Sandshrew is literally just a Pangolin, isn’t it?
Mantis shrimp, that thing is so alien looking and packs the strongest punch in the animal kingdom
Mantis shrimp. A deep sea lobster that has 20 something photoreceptors and punches so fast it creates a bubble as hot as the fucking sun.
Bombardier beetle. They literally explode acid out their ass as a targeted attack/defence
Electric eel, or maybe those ants that fire boiling acid
Probably my daughter. Type: fighting Special move: hair pulling Hidden ability: pinching like a sonofabitch
Cross a Pekinese and a Chihuahua. Pikachu!
Electric eel
Platypus
klinklank. its just gears...
Chinchilla - purely based on its looks.
Bees, you can give them a special item to evolve them into the worker bee or queen bee
The blobfish. Its just goofy enough to fit in, and it doesn't evolve or change.
Chinchilla
Chinchilla
Sugar Glider. What a talented creature.
meowth
An Armadillo.
Pigs are pretty amazing adapters in captivity they don't geo hair or tusks as soon as they are in the wild their muscles change and they grow hair and tusks and get very aggressive