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Hello, it's Professor Willow again. This time I want to tell you about natural selective breeding. Natural selective breeding is the process in which pokemon with the traits best suited for survival live longer, and thus reproduce more. That way, their offspring are more adapted to the environment, and so are their offspring, and so on. In this way, there are far more strong, adapted pokemon in the population.

For example; a colony of Tangela live in a rain forest. Most of the Tangela are a greenish tint, because most of the trees are green and the Tangela blend in easier to hide and to catch prey. One year, however, men come into the forest and plant a lot of bluish trees. Now, the greener Tangela are less able to blend in and more of them starve or get eaten. By contrast, however, the blue Tangela thrive. They go on to produce more blue offspring then the green Tangela, and the blue Tangela begin outnumbering the green. Eventually, nearly the whole population are blue.

Another perfect example, which I’ve illustrated above, is Torterra. Torterra are slow moving, continent-like pokemon that haul around their heavy shells wherever they go. Because their shells grow plants and boulder-like protrusions, it affords them camouflage and heavy armor. When Torterra feels threatened, or when it sleeps, in sinks into long grass or loose soil and seems to become a part of the environment. It’s so convincing that smaller pokemon sometimes nest on it’s back. What does a pokemon as large as Torterra need camouflage for? Even without it’s shell, these pokemon function very slowly. It takes a long time for thoughts to translate into movement. Without it’s shell, pokemon like Houndour and Poochyena would quickly tear it to shreds.

The variety of plants growing out of Torterra’s back are determined by it’s parents. If a female with an elm tree and a male with an oak tree mated, the offspring would either have an elm tree or an oak tree. The more consistent the growths are to the environment the Torterra lives in, the more likely it will survive and reproduce. In this way, the population is ensured to consist mostly of Torterras that blend into their environment.

Shown above:

At the top is a common Torterra, with an oak tree and jagged boulders on it’s shell. The second picture down is a sleeping Torterra, adorned with a small pond and a willow tree. Note how it is sunken into the earth, a behavior indicating sleep or egg laying. On the left is a family of Rattata that has made itself at home inside a Torterra’s tree trunk. Finally, the drawing at the bottom shows a desert Torterra with a cactus and sand. Some opportunist pokemon has dug out a burrow on this Torterra’s back.

Documented by Professor Willow (~WillowWhiskers )

Description
Torterra [link]

Hello, it's Professor Willow again. This time I want to tell you about natural selective breeding. Natural selective breeding is the process in which pokemon with the traits best suited for survival live longer, and thus reproduce more. That way, their offspring are more adapted to the environment, and so are their offspring, and so on. In this way, there are far more strong, adapted pokemon in the population.

For example; a colony of Tangela live in a rain forest. Most of the Tangela are a greenish tint, because most of the trees are green and the Tangela blend in easier to hide and to catch prey. One year, however, men come into the forest and plant a lot of bluish trees. Now, the greener Tangela are less able to blend in and more of them starve or get eaten. By contrast, however, the blue Tangela thrive. They go on to produce more blue offspring then the green Tangela, and the blue Tangela begin outnumbering the green. Eventually, nearly the whole population are blue.

Another perfect example, which I’ve illustrated above, is Torterra. Torterra are slow moving, continent-like pokemon that haul around their heavy shells wherever they go. Because their shells grow plants and boulder-like protrusions, it affords them camouflage and heavy armor. When Torterra feels threatened, or when it sleeps, in sinks into long grass or loose soil and seems to become a part of the environment. It’s so convincing that smaller pokemon sometimes nest on it’s back. What does a pokemon as large as Torterra need camouflage for? Even without it’s shell, these pokemon function very slowly. It takes a long time for thoughts to translate into movement. Without it’s shell, pokemon like Houndour and Poochyena would quickly tear it to shreds.

The variety of plants growing out of Torterra’s back are determined by it’s parents. If a female with an elm tree and a male with an oak tree mated, the offspring would either have an elm tree or an oak tree. The more consistent the growths are to the environment the Torterra lives in, the more likely it will survive and reproduce. In this way, the population is ensured to consist mostly of Torterras that blend into their environment.

Shown above:

At the top is a common Torterra, with an oak tree and jagged boulders on it’s shell. The second picture down is a sleeping Torterra, adorned with a small pond and a willow tree. Note how it is sunken into the earth, a behavior indicating sleep or egg laying. On the left is a family of Rattata that has made itself at home inside a Torterra’s tree trunk. Finally, the drawing at the bottom shows a desert Torterra with a cactus and sand. Some opportunist pokemon has dug out a burrow on this Torterra’s back.

Documented by Professor Willow (~WillowWhiskers )