>>47547244My headcanon is there are animals, but you see the world through the lens of the protagonist who is an excited child who wants to be a trainer and doesn't give a fuck about lame non-magical creatures. This can be applied to the rest of the world too, it isn't as pokemon centered as it's shown, but your character only focuses on pokemon related things. You know, we see an abstraction of the world, like in 90% of videogames.