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Samurott is the aquatic samurai water starter from fifth generation. Complete with a majestic beard, a formidable tail, and long and sharp horns (both on its head and it’s elbows) that is uses as swords. These swords are known as “seamitars”, a play on the words “sea” and “scimitar”. According to the pokédex, its seamitars can be drawn and sheathed as needed.
These seamitars are going to be the focus of our article on Samurott today. They’re clearly made out of some kind of protective armor, similar to a bone or a tusk. In particular, the singular horn on Samurott’s head reminds me of a Narwhal’s horn:
Narwhals, like Samurott, are aquatic unicorns of sorts. Their horns are actually tusks: a large, protruding canine tooth. They are long, straight, and spiral. Very rarely, a narwhal will actually develop two tusks. Is this skull, you can see how the tusks are actually teeth:
The tusk is actually filled with millions of nerve endings and sensory receptors. A narwhal uses its horn to “taste” the seawater around it: they can use their horns to locate food, potential mates, or threats in the water near them. And, of course, they will use their horns to fight.
Alternatively, Samurott’s seamitars might be more like an elephant’s tusks or rhinoceros’ horn. Elephant’s tusks are also just large teeth. But rhinoceros’ horns are made primarily of keratin, the same stuff that makes up your hair and fingernails.
Since Samurott’s seamitars are not protruding from it’s mouth, they’re probably not teeth like an elephant’s or a narwhals. They could be made of keratin, like a rhinoceros horn, or they could be made of true bone like an armadillo’s shell. Still, there would be a lot of use for an animal like Samurott to have the sensory abilities of a narwhal’s horn. Especially considering the horn on it’s head is almost a direct feed into Samurott’s brain, that one is probably a sensory organ, like a narwhal’s horn or an antennae.
The other two, the seamitars on Samurott’s legs, are like claws that can be sheathed or drawn. Like a cat’s claw, which is sheathed safely inside of their paws until they clench their muscles, upon which the claw pops out!
Claws are also made of keratin, so this certainly supports the theory that Samurott’s seamitars are as well. But if you read our entry on Gallade, you’ll learn about some cool animals who’s bones pop out to use as weapons.
Samurott’s seamitars are like horns or tusks, likely made of bone or keratin. The horn protruding from it’s head might be a sensory organ like a narwhal’s tusk, which it uses to “taste” seawater to locate food, threats, and mates.
