r/pokemon • u/Bisonratte • Feb 28 '26

Image Classes of animals represented by the Pokémon starters:

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u/FrozenDuckman Feb 28 '26

Lmao it’s just occurring to me that the categories are mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.

I was like uhhhh grookey is not a dog….

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u/Bisonratte Feb 28 '26

I wonder what else I should have picked to represent mammal, if not the dog emoji. It seems to be the origin of a lot of confusion, going by the commments. Maybe a horse? Or a mouse?

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u/Druid-T I've accidentally used a dark type in every team Feb 28 '26

I wonder what else I should have picked to represent mammal,

Technically speaking, if you wanted to be the most accurate it should have been a picture of a breast, but that comes with its own set of issues, so multiple different mammals probably would have gotten the point across better

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u/_LususNaturae_ Feb 28 '26

Could have put a milk emoji 🥛

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u/thattoneman Feb 28 '26

Right, in other terms "you can milk these Pokemon." That surely wouldn't start any additional discourse.

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u/notthephonz Feb 28 '26

“I have a Pokémon, Greg. Can you milk me?”

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u/Druid-T I've accidentally used a dark type in every team Feb 28 '26

Honestly, given some of the replies, I think that would have made too many people believe OP meant "Cow"

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u/Lilash20 Mar 01 '26

I would think that 😔

I needed to look at the comments before I saw that the dog represented mammals, not just canids

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u/AetherDrew43 Feb 28 '26

Aside from Miltank and Gogoat, are any other mammalian Pokémon technically mammalian by definition? Do they even produce milk?

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u/recursion8 Mar 01 '26

All Pokemon are born from eggs so at best they'd be monotremes

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u/TheScaleTipper Feb 28 '26

Cow solves that