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spooky-enthusiast · 1 year ago

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I have fallen down a research Buneary hole regarding convergent adaptation between the Mudbray line and Ursaring's recently rediscovered evolution, Ursaluna.

Despite inhabiting very different native environments, both species independently adopted the strategy of using mud as armor! The differences between how both species mix and apply mud illustrate how well adapted they are to their native environments as a whole! I found myself briefly asking why there weren't more papers on the topic before I remembered it is a very niche subject utilizing very recently discovered data, and as such I will have to appease the brain Skwovets (ADHD) with only a handful of papers.

#pokemon #pkmn irl #Mudbray/Mudsdale typically inhabit areas with dry soil; hence their strategy of mixing dirt with saliva #which resulted in them gaining the ability to enhance the resulting mud using compounds in their saliva to get more use out of it #conversely Ursaluna primarily inhabited marshlands where there was already an abundance of mud #as such there was not as much adaptational pressure for Ursaluna to enhance the mud they use #though they do show a preference for mud with high peat content #((ooc: I'm using the word adaptation in place of evolution here bc. yanno. Pokémon evolution means something pretty different))

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