A Ranger Too Late

revived pokemon rp blog from way back when. ranger, fossil rehabber n avian 'mon enthusiast

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update 2.0

howdy! so this blog has actually been around for a while (5yrs now) but i’ve shamefully let it fall into disrepair and abandon. and a lot has changed since! 

i’ve moved back to sinnoh mainly for expenses’ sake, and i’m only occasionally on full ranger duty now, with the bulk of my time being spent in the fossil biodome not far from Canalave making sure everyone’s teeth is staying out of each other and the sun isn’t doesn’t look too scary to our rehab patients

can’t guarantee i’ll still be making big original posts, but i wanna for sure get back into the swing of things, hopefully starting with an update on my chompy boi (and his new friend!!)

stay safe y’all 💪

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Legendaries are treated as creatures of mythos and INCREDIBLY hard to even see, never mind meet

i’m also so starved for attention so go wild with asks (just don’t be nasty)

ooc, I've only played up to halfway through SwSh, which translates to not having the fuckin funds to travel. Gen 5 and below are my general wheelhouse. no i don’t really know what an ultra wormhole is

i don’t tend to hc/write around canon characters (unless it’s cynthia <3) just makes it more freeform for me ygm

i’m blissfully unaware of whatever evil team stuff is actively going on. this can be persuaded to change but not guaranteed

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vet tech friend sent a pic of a wild wingull that got brought in for a foot injury and then proceeded to loudly demand that she be fed many delicious magikarp chunks

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have you ever seen a Pokemon with an unusual type that wasn't part of a recognized regional variant? I assume that those sorts of mutations must happen or regional variants wouldn't be able to develop to begin with, but I just keep thinking, you know, how the fuck would I feel if I was out on a walk and some pidgey just burst into flames

lmao the consequences of Flaming Pidgey is terrifying, thank you for the idea 😂😂😭

Unfortunately, my answer to this is fairly boring in that no, I've never run into non-standard typed Pokémon...YET. I think the closest we have as a collective at work is when we - VERY RARELY - have to essentially act as end-of-life support for a cloned fossil Pokémon that was used as an experimental case for viable type DNA splices.

That is to say, during standard procedure to revive a fossil Pokémon, gaps in the original cloned DNA have to be patched up with existing Pokémon genes, which are matched up as closely as they can. But somewhere out there, there are somehow places with enough funding and tech to go off-books and put in whatever they feel like and 'see what happens'. You get a lot of revivifications incompatible with life this way, and the ones that DO work tend to have a terrible, short, quality of life

There's a lot of invisible moving pieces that enable a Pokémon to outwardly show signs of type energy, like having exposed flames or mineral dermis, but on an internal scale, it just means horrendous miscommunication between chemical signals, over/under production of resource, and ultimately, expiration

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On the subject of electric types as pets, what would you say IS a good first-time electric type to have? I love electric types and although I lack the means of raising one at this moment, I would be interested in hearing your thoughts for anyone who would be interested in potentially caring for one at some point!

charjabug is honestly one of the best pokemon i can think of! they're pretty mild-mannered, and unlike a lot of electric types, they can safely discharge onto a variety of electronics to charge them! their care needs are relatively simple and they're hardy little bugs that don't need to evolve for their survival. plus they're super cute hehe

if you're able to keep more than one pokemon, pawmi are also really good starter electric types, but they need at least one buddy, and they're a little more fragile.

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this is stanley. stanley likes my mom's buddha statue. my mom doesn't like stanley as much.

we don't own a sigilyph.

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other pokemon that you can squeeze for fun effects???

koffing (not recommended)

hoppip (pollen blast)

spheal (makes a fun little noise)

drifloon (fart sound)

cubchoo (snot everywhere)

swirlix (sticky...)

pyukumuku (but watch out!)

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imagine a nasal honk

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If the way reviving fossils works is by using the genetic material left in a fossil to create a clone does that mean we could just clone any living Pokémon we want? And if so, wouldn't this mean that no Pokémon is actually at risk of extinction anymore?

sort of. remember, it's extremely expensive to clone pokemon like this. it's not the sort of thing that can be done all the time. besides this, preventing extinction relies on maintaining good genetic diversity. if we're just cloning the same individual over and over, we could theoretically maintain a species forever...but to actually ensure survival of the species, we need multiple individuals to establish a breeding pool from.

that being said, it can be a super useful tool under the right circumstances. cloning was actually used decades ago to help bring back the declining eevee population! when the species was all but eradicated in the wild and rare in captivity, genetic samples kept from deceased individuals were cloned to bring back seven eevee to add to the breeding pool. this was a huge factor in reestablishing the species!

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Question! With fossil Pokemon, will they always be shiny if the Pokemon who left them was shiny, or does it depend on the Pokemon?

they will! when we "revive" a fossil pokemon, we're actually just making a genetic clone of the pokemon who left the fossil behind using genetic material pulled from the fossil. because shininess is genetic, a revived fossil will be shiny if the fossil has that gene. the first successfully revived shiny fossil was a big news story when that pokemon hatched- it taught us a lot about how much information we could get out of a fossil about pokemon from ancient times!

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so fuckin dumpling shaped

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can the seel line and spheal line be buddies? Sometimes I see clips from pokemon aquariums where they're in the same habitat and I'm just wondering if that would ever happen in the wild! Or alternatively, if I need to start checking the quality of aquariums I follow....

they can cohabit perfectly well! there aren't a ton of places where you can find them together in the wild, but that's mostly because of a difference in where they live. seel primarily spend time in the water, while spheal spend their time on land or on ice floes because they're not very good swimmers. but when they do come together in the wild, you can often find them basking together and sometimes even investigating each other. in captivity, we get to see some unique social interactions between the two species as they become used to each other!

it's fairly common to keep these two pokemon together in a zoo environment, because they have similar habitat needs and aren't likely to experience conflict. aquariums in particular need to make the most of the space they have, so they do a lot of work towards managing which species can live together. as a result, there's tons of good scholarship documenting ways to keep multiple pokemon species together safely! the main issue keepers note is occasional injuries on the spheal from a seel's horn, but these are almost always superficial injuries from brushing up against the horn at a bad angle.

it's always good to ask questions if you're not sure about something you see in a zoo or aquarium. in this case, we've got an example of a safe multi-species environment!

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Hi, so a friend of mine came into possession of a Vullaby egg, in Sinnoh (Rescue from a poacher) and was wondering- Is there a way to ethically source the required bones for their "Diaper"? It hasn't hatched yet and I don't know hwo they work

you can source bones from a butchershop and treat them at home to get the meat scraps off, or order them from a specialist pokemon store that stocks bones for this very purpose. just make sure to break them into smaller pieces. vullaby produce a sticky saliva that allows them to glue pieces of bone together to make their protective bone-suit. it's an inherent behavior for them, so all you have to do is provide the bone bits and they'll do the rest!

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Buneary Comic

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Greetings from the rangers Pastoria City! I've been having a problem with the local Chatot. Some local morons went out and found a flock of chatot, and taught them all horrible phrases and slurs and stuff. The idiots have been properly dealt with, but local enforcement is having a really hard time keeping the chatot from saying them again. Of course, chatot mimic other chatot, so the problem is spreading. It even got to my Grammas chatot. We've had a bit of success if we isolate a chatot and teach it new phrases, but it's not really possible to do that on this large a scale

Any help would be appreciated. This is such a mess 😭

well that is...one hell of a situation. wow.

unfortunately, chatot are more likely to repeat phrases that get them a lot of attention. and if hollering slurs at passersby doesn't get them a lot of attention, i don't know what would. this sadly sounds like a situation where you're going to have human-pokemon conflict in the long term if you don't address it as soon as possible.

rounding up the chatot and teaching them new words isn't going to work out, i don't think. by the time you pull it off, those chatot are going to be habituated to human care and likely become greater nuisances than they already are if rereleased. it takes a pretty long time to remove a phrase from a chatot's vocabulary. i think your best bet is going to be to find an isolated flock, whether in captivity or in the wild, and introduce these chatot somewhere that they're not going to encounter too many people.

i would reach out to any bird pokemon sanctuaries you know of in the region and see if they would be willing to take in a flock with some less than savory language tendencies. depending on the size of the flock, you might have to ask a few different places to split them up. if that doesn't work, try reaching out to some researchers who work with chatot. that's more of a long shot, but there may be a professor out there who'd be interested in studying language transfer and exctinction im chatot who wouldnt mind working with them!

it stinks to have to interrupt these chatots' normal lives more than they already have been, but truthfully i'd be worried about them getting attacked if they remain in the wild where people can hear them. best of luck- it's a crummy situation all around, and you guys are awesome for trying to help these poor birds.

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out of all the pokemon i've been asked to remove from the vicinity of the artazon pool she's the one who belongs here the most

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Hi! I was looking into getting a Sneasel, however I love in a very warm and humid climate. Think, anything lower than 80 degrees Fahrenheit is considered chilly, summer lasts for 9 months, and has the humidity of a swamp (because I live next to a swamp). Is it ethical to keep any kind of ice type Pokémon here? Thanks, sorry if I’m bothering you!

unless you're willing and wealthy enough to construct a sneasel-appropriate, temperature-controlled enclosure, then no. the vast majority of ice-type pokemon are adapted to live in extremely cold environments and need the presence of snow and ice to thrive.

some ice types are a little more heat-tolerant than others, especially when given plenty of ways to cool off. the seel and spheal lines can manage some level of heat when provided with cold water pools and a low-fat diet, as can lapras, which can be found in relatively warmer areas. the swinub line can do well if given a range of temperaturea as well, and they've been known to occasionally bask in the warmth of a hot spring after unearthing it. frost form rotom are particularly adaptable to a wide range of temperatures.

if your temps regularly exceed 100°F, though, you should not be looking at getting an ice type. that is too hot for them to manage, and they would start experiencing seat stress or even heat exhaustion/heatstroke.