Reblog if you are a pokeblog in the Pokemon ask blog community
My account was deleted due to the EU law and I lost the infinite amount of pokeblogs I was followed too. Just want to get back into tumblr, maybe fixing my dash first is the best thing to do. Accepting new blogs too!
There’s quite a few pokémon that are all female, and Salazzle joins their ranks in gen 7. Only female Salandit are capable of evolving. It may sound strange, but there are quite a few organisms in our world that are like Salazzle, where only the females ever reach full maturity. Many of these species are parthenogenetic, meaning they don’t even need males to reproduce. They can still have sex, but even if they don’t, they can lay an egg that’s never been fertilized and the egg will still hatch. Whiptail Lizards, Komodo Dragons, Mole salamanders and some frogs are able to do this.
In fact, about one third of all whiptail species are entirely female: the male has gone extinct altogether. But, since there are still plenty of male Salandit around, Salazzle isn’t quite like these lizards.
Most animals (humans included) are diploids, meaning we carry two sets of chromosomes. Salamanders that are parthenogenetic often have three, four or five sets of chromosomes: this helps ensure that even though an egg might never be fertilized, it won’t be a perfect clone of its mother when it hatches. Genetic diversity is important for a species survivals: a group of identical clones would not survive for long.
So how can an egg hatch if it’s never been fertilized? In human reproduction, the child inherits half of their chromosomes from each parent. For example, for the chromosomes that determine sex, females have XX and males have XY. A child will inevitably get one from each parent, an X from the mother and either an X or Y from the father.
In a parthenogenetic example, the chromosomes that determine sex for a Komodo Dragon are called W and Z, not X and Y. It’s also a bit backwards from human reproduction: a male komodo dragon has ZZ, and a female has WZ. Each Komodo dragon egg laid by a female has either a W or a Z. In parthenogenesis, the chromosomes in the egg duplicate themselves, becoming either WW or ZZ. Just like YY is not an viable combination in humans, WW is a not a viable combination and will never hatch. ZZ, on the other hand, makes a male komodo dragon, so every unfertilized egg that hatches will be a male. Eggs that have been fertilized by a male can hatch either as male or female.
This explains why there’s so many more male Salandit than females! If a Salazzle’s egg is never fertilized, it will hatch into a male Salandit. If the egg is fertilized, it will be either a male or female Salandit.
Salazzle is a parthenogenetic organism: it can reproduce without having sex, and unfertilized eggs will always hatch into male Salandit.
how to know if tumblr has been eating your asks: send yourself anywhere between 5-10 asks, ( anon or not ) but have each ask be nothing but an order in which you sent them.
i.e: the first ask says ‘1′, the second says ‘2′, etc etc.
i sent myself ten of these, both on anon and not. This was all i received back:
Tumblr is now eating asks along with notifications. We must be more interactive than ever if we want keep this form of entertainment we call the rpc. Go ahead and warn your friends or test this for yourselves.. This post is reblogable.
I just sent myself five of these. none of them came through.
I just did this myself last night and out of the ten ask I sent myself only one came through.
Please know if I’m not responding to you, your ask, or your messages, I am notwillingly ignoring you. I am however doing my best to try and stay in contact with everyone.
sorry to everyone who tagged me or sent me an ask. If I didn’t react to it, tumblr didn’t show me.
{As a PSA, the mun recently tried this and only got one back, and she’s known some people were having trouble getting their asks through. If you’re worried about whether or not we’ve received your ask, send a message with something like, “Hey, can you see if this got through: [your ask here],” and we’ll gladly check. 🙂 Those who wish to remain anonymous and those with no Tumblr accounts, apologies in advance if any of your asks went missing!}
Since it’s pride month and I wanna spread that good positivity around,
If any Poké ask/daily blogs (and/or their muses are LGBT+ 🏳️🌈) Reblog this! (And also maybe say what you are in the tags (but only if you’re comfortable :o)
It’s come to my attention that I didn’t exactly explain my blog’s purpose… Oups! Well, similarly to @bills-pokedex (sorry for the tag!), my blog is a type of roleplay blog where you can ask me any types of questions about how to care for your partner pokemon and I’ll do my best to answer questions! Of course, I may struggle a bit with pokemon from regions other than Unova, as I’ve been so absorbed in my studies these past few years, I have not had the time to travel much, but I can try anyway!
Oooor on the other hand, if you have ANY questions on the C-Gear or Dream Mist, I’ll gladly answer those questions as well!
Thank you in advance and I’ll await your questions with great enthusiasm!
Honestly though the most unrealistic thing about Ultra Beasts is that there aren’t huge internal debates within the Pokémon scientist community about how to reclassify non-human creatures.
“What the fuck are you guys even talking about there are literally no biological consistencies between Pokémon, we have everything from housecats to molecular jello to fucking sentient keychains, what does it even mean to say Ultra Beasts are a separate category of creature when Pokémon was never a coherent concept to begin with?!”
“You’re overthinking this. “Pokémon” is just our shorthand for “nonhuman.” Of course Ultra Beasts are Pokémon, everything nonhuman is. Therefore, the Ultra Recon Squad are also Pokémon.“
“Excuse you, but for a long time we have been able to make accurate descriptions of creature’s behavior by classifying them as Pokémon. If it fits in a pokeball, eats poffins, learns moves as expected, and even has the same type rules as the creatures on our planet, there is no reason not to call it a Pokémon”
“Bullshit. Ultra Beasts behaviors towards humans and wormholes are completely different than those of Pokémon, so we can define Ultra Beasts as a different set of behavioral traits.”
“You are all wrong. “Ultra Beast” is a term used to describe the origin of the creature. Pokémon live with us while Ultra Beasts came from beyond, there for they are a different thing”
“Wait but there *are* Pokémon from other planets and dimensions now”
“Exactly: we misclassified them. Clefairy, minior, lunatone, solrock, and similar creatures should properly be called Ultra Beasts”
“Fools. “Ultra Beasts” clearly only applies to extradimensional creatures, Pokémon were extraterrestrial from this planet in the first place. No, only Pokémon like Giratina should be reclassified as Ultra Beasts”
“Does the “spirit world” and other similar references count as a separate dimensional plane? Does this mean Ghost-Type is a type solely for Ultra Beasts?“
“Guys look you are missing the very important distinction between the two: aesthetic. Pokémon make you want to hug them with their cuteness, Ultra Beasts look like twisted abominations from someone’s nightmares. Therefore: we need to reclassify creatures based on how cute they are”
“Ultra Beasts are cute too what the hell are you talking about”
The Pokédex According to Bill 