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shlocko @lemmy.world

1y ago

If the real world worked like Pokémon, what animal would evolve into what animal?

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Everything to crab
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
  Carcinisation (American English: carcinization) is a form of convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like body plan. The term was introduced into evolutionary biology by L. A. Borradaile, who described it as "the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab".
  Pretty neat
- This one’s my favorite!
- reject modernity, return to monkey. Reject monkey, advance to crab.

Caterpillar > Cocoon > Butterfly / Moth
Wait...
- The moth transformation occurs when the cocoon is near a lamp.

Hamster Guinea Pig Capybara

For sure guinea pigs would evolve into capybaras
- And hamsters into guinea pigs.

Gary Newman -> Gary Oldman
- Gary Oldman -> Gary Oak
- –⟩ Gary Busse
  
  the final phase

Lemming > Chihuahua > Honey Badger
Just angrier and angrier all the way through
- What level do we all evolve at?

Shrimp > Prawn > Lobster
- Aren't shrimp and prawn already the exact same thing?
  Like mountain lions and cougars.
  
  Shrimp vs prawn is colloquial, not a scientific classification, so it varies from place to place and person to person, and depending on the specific animal we're talking about, but in general
  The ones we call shrimp tend to:
  Live in salt water
  Be smaller
  Have curled bodies
  Belong to the sub-order pleocytema
  Have plate-like ~~girls~~ * gills*
  And the ones we call prawns tend to:
  Live in fresh water
  Be larger
  Have straight bodies
  Helong to the sub-order dendrobranghiata
  Have branching ~~hills~~ gills

Ferret > Badger > Bear

Tapir - Rhinoceros - Elephant
- Tapirs are one of those animals I always forget exist and am delighted when I am reminded of them.
  
  That’s shrews for me. They’re like rodents, but way cuter.

Female/Male Maine coon cat into male lion look with mane
- Mane equity!
  also 😸

Corgi into German Shepherd into Wolf

Quokka > Wallaby > Kangaroo

Alpaca > Llama > Camel
Yeast > Mold > Brie Rind > Chanterelle
Algae > Fern > Sunflower > Eucalyptus Tree
Squirrel > Raccoon > Bear
Deer > Elk/Caribou > Moose
Cow > Yak > Bison
Magpie > Crow > Raven
Ant > Termite > Bee > Hornet
Tick > Spider > Crab
Fox > Coyote > Wolf
Pillbug > Horseshoe Crab > Armadillo

Vulture > ostrich

Kanye West -> Kanye East
- this is only possible by trading the Kanye
  
  But also evolvable with the rare item: Kanye Shoes.

Camels -> giraffes

Elon musk > chimpanzees > humans

Salamander -> Turtle -> Seaturtle
Duck -> Flamingo -> Ostriche
Pidgeon -> Parrot -> Turkey
Hamster -> Ferret -> Prairie Dog
Chameleon -> Komodo Dragon -> Alligator
Mosquito -> Anteater -> Elephant
Anchovies -> Salmon -> Dolphin
Fox -> Wolf -> Bear
Cat -> Cheetah -> Mountain Lion -> Tiger
Worm -> Eel -> Snake -> Anaconda
- Mosquito
  I see what you did there.
- Pidgeon -> Parrot -> Turkey
  I think it would be Pigeon -> Parrot -> Pheasant -> Peacock, but then I don't know a lot about Pokemon.
- Duck-goose-swan imo...

Llama > Alpaca > Camel
That one is kinda dumb but it's all I can think of right now.
- Thanks for fixing it for me. :)
  Wait, what would it look like with 3 humps?

Monkey > Great Ape > Human

Leeches -> businessmen
- Landlords > Leeches
- Leechalot -> Landlawd -> Ceeyeeo
  Here's another one: Contractworka -> Fulltyme -> Letgoh

Kiwi > Emu > Cassowary

Duck --> Crocoduck --> Crocodile
- Remember when creationism was the dumbest thing on the internet?
  Wasn't that nice?

Goldfish Swordfish Megalodon

Beetle -> slightly bigger beetle -> slightly bigger beetle
- -> Paul Harrison -> John Lennon

Weasel to ferret to mink.

Chimp to Orang utan to gorilla

Waterbug -> Cricket -> Locust
Fun fact actually, crickets already evolve into locusts in the actual animal kingdom
- Fun fact actually, crickets already evolve into locusts
  No they don't. Are you thinking of grasshoppers, maybe? Although that's not exactly true either.
  
  Yes, sorry. But yeah, a grasshopper will, during a fertility shortage, go through a transformation and seek out a swarm of its brethren, forming what we call locusts.
  They say there used to be more locusts in the US and Mexico than there were in the Sahara, but that when the Gold Rush happened, so many people passed along where the grasshoppers lived that the necessary numbers needed to make locust swarms was reduced by the constant tramplings of passerbies.

Anole > Iguana > Alligator
Mouse > Rat > Opossum
Armadillo > Pangolin

Domestic housecat -> all big cats (like Eevee)
- Now I want to go do an ask pokemon on "if your house cat or dog were an eevee, what would it evolve to?"
- Cheetah > Puma > Jaguar > Panther > Tiger > Leopard > Leopard (snow variant) > Lion > Lion (mountain variant) > Maverick-
  Oh wait, that doesn't work that way at all.
  
  Lion (mountain variant)
  The thing you call a "mountain lion" over there in the US isn't a lion. It's a cougar.

Here's a freaky one : Jaguar > Cow > Giraffe
- Hmm… maybe Zebra > Okapi > Giraffe?
- "Why does this Cow know Slash?"
  "... why does this Giraffe know Milk Drink?!"

Fish Shark Whale

Pheasant evolves into Peacock or Turkey depending on evolution stone.

Fish would absolutely evolve into octopi.
- Cuttlefish -> Octopi

I don't know, but you know that big Agra is going to develop synthetic evolution stones to artificialy grow plants and livestock.
- Rare candy?

Pomeranian -> Shiba Inu -> Akita Inu (or maybe Malamute)

Single scoop ice cream to double scoop ice cream to triple scoop ice cream
...What do you mean that's already a pokemon evolution??
- Wait, for real?
  Edit: fucking hell it's true. And its name is fucking Vanillite, smh. And I also see a whip cream pokemon, too. Why everyone still buying that shit is beyond me.

Isopod -> pangolin -> armadillo

Frog -> Gecko -> Bird
Bonus - baby evolutionary form prior to frog: Axolotl
(Hyperlinks to specific species)
- Axolotl > salamander > giant Salamander

I think the biological evolution tree or whatever is the name would essentially showcase every evolution known so far 🤔🤔🤔

Mankey -> NPC

Mouse would evolve to cat, cat to dog

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