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Were Oricorio actually based off of Hawaiian ōʻō birds?

Anonymous Thu 23 Jul 2020 06:46:15 No.44295963 View View Reply Original Report

>four species found on four islands
>known for their glossy plumage
>feed off of nectar (and other things but that doesn't matter)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moho_(genus)

Thoughts? There's no way this is just a coincidence.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Jul 2020 06:47:35 No.44295969 Report

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>>44295963
This post is completely pointless. No one was debating on the origin of this Pokémon, we all knew what it was so I don’t know why you felt like you needed to report into /vp/ about it

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Anonymous Thu 23 Jul 2020 06:52:39 No.44295986 Report

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>>44295969
I wanted to share something interesting I found about a pokemon's real-world origin, and was hoping this thread could have more posts about other little-known real world counterparts to pokemon. We always said Oricorio was based off of Darwin's finches in the Galapagos, but this is actually a species that was endemic to Hawaii which Alola is based off of, and fits better as a point of influence. It made me wonder what other pokemon have inspirations that we haven't considered.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Jul 2020 07:12:52 No.44296071 Report

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>>44295969
At least reply to my post like a man instead of sageing like a bitch and leaving to shitpost on the countless other shitty threads on this board. You had no obligation to reply to my post, much less fucking insult it and leave as if this is some game of ding dong ditch. The least you could do was not sage a thread at fucking 2 AM when barely any board is active, but instead you chose to be petty and salty and shut down my thread before I even got a word in. You think I posted a fucking wikipedia article in an OP to debate? It's shit like that which instantly marks you as a tranny. Not everything is a mark of hostility, some of us just want to share cool fucking things we find out about. But I guess a discussion of that merit goes completely over your head since you can only see enemies with agendas. Go fuck off to another waifu thread or something equally as insignificant that you nevertheless choose to deem as not "completely pointless". Fuck you and everyone with your pessimistic victim-complex life interpretation.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Jul 2020 07:12:58 No.44296072 Report

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>>44295963
Not really Hawaiian honeyeaters, they're more based on a different group called Hawaiian honeycreepers. They also feed on nectar among other things and are still technically, if somewhat barely, still around. They had a pretty massive divergence event, and there were roughly 50 known species. Baille is pretty blatantly an iiwi. Pom-pom isn't really specific, but yellow is the second most common color for honeycreeper species. Red-Yellow on the color spectrum helps them blend in with the ohia flowers they feed on and camouflages them from aerial predators. Pau is a bit of a reach, but Hawaiians would partially pluck birds and release them afterward to collect feathers. It's the blatantly hula one, so that might be it. Sensu is probably just gf being Japanese and putting in a Japanese dancer.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Jul 2020 07:20:05 No.44296105 Report

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As for the flower gimmick, there are quite a few nectavores among honeycreepers. There primary food was the nectar from ohia lehua trees, but there were also lobelia plants that evolved along side them. These plants became specialized to be pollinated by honeycreepers. As such, they grew to have flowers specifically tailored to the bills of specific honey creepers. Some were even tapered at the ends so that the honeycreepers could look for avian predators while feeding. The more attractive the flower to the birds, the more likely it is to get pollinated. Lobeliads also had their own diversification event with 152 known species. A lot of them became endangered/ extinct as they had specific pollinators who did the same. This is likely the origin for the specific nectar by island and how it changes the form of oricorio.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Jul 2020 07:22:36 No.44296117 Report

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Also forgot to mention that there were a lot of species of lobeliads specific to certain areas of certain islands. Hence this is why it likely influenced the different nectar form island to island gimmick.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Jul 2020 07:26:35 No.44296137 Report

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>>44296072
>>44296105
>>44296117
That's pretty neat. Thanks for sharing. I kinda feel embarrassed about my autistic rant now. Maybe I should get some sleep. I can definitely see the resemblance though. There's quite a variety of lobeliads.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Jul 2020 07:27:10 No.44296141 Report

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everyone knew this DAY OF their reveal fuck off faggot

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Jul 2020 07:31:39 No.44296163 Report

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>>44296137
Nah don't worry. You learned something new. Hawaiian honey eaters are honestly more niche than honeycreepers most of the time. That one webm of the last O'o right before it fucking died aside.

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