Protector of the Lab

As we are all aware… just as there are many different Pokemon across the regions, there are many different animals all over the world in real life.

In real life, there are animals everybody seems to know and recognize, which tend to be popular zoo exhibits or those more commonly found around the world. There are plenty of other animals that—unless you take a particular interest in zoology—many people are unfamiliar with. They may be animals seen before, of which the name is forgotten or never learned, or they may be a completely new discovery for a person.

Now, there are millions of species of animals in real life, more generally categorized still by a staggering amount of taxonomical terms. There is no one person who knows of them all, no matter how studied of a zoologist they are.

There may only currently be 802 species of Pokemon total (not including Mega Evolutions and Alola Forms) which is a very significantly less amount for any person to remember (I mean, very many of us fans are able to name the majority if not all of them easily), but I believe species recognition should work somewhat similarly in the Pokemon world as it does in real life. If a species is rare in a region or isn’t native to a region at all, it would make sense that it could be a person’s first time learning of its existence.

Instead, we lazily seem to just assume all people in the Pokemon world are able to recognize all Pokemon right off the bat. Even if they recognize them, it’s not often they are surprised if it’s not a species they’ve ever seen in person before.

Drawing moogles was easily the best idea I’ve had all day. Just a quick scribble doodle

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