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

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If the real world worked like Pokémon, what animal would evolve into what animal? - Lemmy.World

Corgi into German Shepherd into Wolf
Fish would absolutely evolve into octopi.
Cuttlefish -> Octopi
Female/Male Maine coon cat into male lion look with mane
It's Rare, But a Lioness Can Grow a Mane

A lioness at the Topeka Zoo and others at least two other zoos — as well as a handful living in the wild — have grown manes. Why?

Discover Magazine
Everything to crab
This one’s my favorite!

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

Carcinisation - Wikipedia

reject modernity, return to monkey. Reject monkey, advance to crab.
For sure guinea pigs would evolve into capybaras
And hamsters into guinea pigs.
Chimp to Orang utan to gorilla
Weasel to ferret to mink.
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?!”

I don’t know, but you know that big Agra is going to develop synthetic evolution stones to artificialy grow plants and livestock.

Caterpillar > Cocoon > Butterfly / Moth

Wait…

The moth transformation occurs when the cocoon is near a lamp.

Lemming > Chihuahua > Honey Badger

Just angrier and angrier all the way through

What level do we all evolve at?

Frog -> Gecko -> Bird

Bonus - baby evolutionary form prior to frog: Axolotl

(Hyperlinks to specific species)

Glass frog - Wikipedia

Axolotl > salamander > giant Salamander
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.
Fish > Shark > Whale
Goldfish > Swordfish > Megalodon
Hamster > Guinea Pig > Capybara
Monkey > Great Ape > Human
Gary Newman -> Gary Oldman
Elon musk > chimpanzees > humans
Kanye West -> Kanye East
this is only possible by trading the Kanye
But also evolvable with the rare item: Kanye Shoes.
Ferret > Badger > Bear
Duck --> Crocoduck --> Crocodile

Remember when creationism was the dumbest thing on the internet?

Wasn’t that nice?

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

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?
The organs that aquatic creatures use to breathe

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.

Camels -> giraffes
Isopod -> pangolin -> armadillo
Beetle -> slightly bigger beetle -> slightly bigger beetle
-> Paul Harrison -> John Lennon

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.

I am not from the US, but the reason why I called it a mountain Lion is because, these big cats are all macOS version names. That was the joke.