#jumbo bulborb

[sillypikmin]

if louie can ride a dogs... can he ride a grubdogs!?

i think he could do anything

[questionablepiklopedia]

I think about this quote every day

[hungrydata]

Day 99

Some really low-effort Pikmin wallpapers i did during the peak of my Pikmin hyperfixation

I mean if you want to use them, go ahead, I just don't know why anyone would want to look at this for more than 2 minutes or however long u look at ur home screen ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[iamthekaijuking]

I love the Piklopedia entry on the Jumbo Bulborb. Olimar mentions that its abnormal large size is due to "abnormal extra chromosomes due to failed meiosis" and that it "is unable to reproduce".

how does a space trucker even know cytogenetics without any advanced equipment tho

Maybe they just have like a bio scanner like subnautica or something, I use a similar stuff in my primary novel setting. It’s convenient.

Olimar does correctly label the affliction the jumbo bulborb has as polyploidy. Most animals have two sets of chromosomes (except for things like male Hymenopterans but I think we all know that family of animals is a bunch of freaks) as adults, but they don’t start out like that. During the earliest stages of fertilization they have more, and the excess is just discarded.

How many extra chromosomes jumbos have, we don’t know. But apparently bulborbs with polyploidy grow extra huge but never develop to the point of sexual maturity. It’s possible that the extra chromosomes have resulted in too many growth hormones, meaning that jumbos are in a permanent state of puberty.

A hormone imbalance is what caused the (unfortunately late) Goliath the American bullfrog tadpole to grow massive. While we don’t know why Goliath had a hormone imbalance, the results were very similar to jumbo bulborbs. Basically just continuous growth but never growing up, and eventually reaching a point where his anatomy couldn’t support his size.