every so often a really difficult decision has to be made especially if you're a pokemon trainer
and it comes in the form of choosing which starter to choose welcome back to shelby on safari and in
today's video we are gonna look at the starter pokemon of sinnoh the anticipation for pokemon's
brilliant diamond and shining pearl being released on nintendo switch but in true shelby on safari
fashion we are going to take it to the next step and introduce you to the real life counterparts
the real life pokemon that surround us all animals so you ready join the safari and let's get started
in no particular order let's start with piplup the penguin pokemon coming in at one foot four
inches tall and weighing eleven and a half pounds piplup is certainly a force to be reckoned with in
the pokedex entries and in the anime we see piplup sure has a lot of spunk and self-pride being a bet
on the clumsy side if piplup falls well they'll just get right back up and puff out their chest
while they might seem a bit clumsy on land when it comes to water they're anything but clumsy
skilled swimmers that can dive for up to 10 minutes while things might get a little chilly for piplup
that's all right because the cold didn't bother them anyways because they have thick down i wonder
if that's what elsa has but in terms of what real life animal is like piplup let me introduce you
to a previous animal introduced here on shelby on safari the fairy penguin they are so cute any
excuse to bring them up again i will happily take also known as the little blue penguin
these guys are found in australia new zealand they are the smallest penguin species and in fact even
smaller than piplup they only get to one foot three inches tall and weigh only two to three
pounds whereas piplup weighs eleven and a half whoa that's a lot of penguin although i should say
their weight does vary seasonally take for example when they're parents during breeding season
laying eggs and raising chicks the little blue penguin's weight does drop rather dramatically
and just like piplup is known to be very skilled swimmer and diver the little blue penguin has that
well in their name the scientific name of the penguins
is eudyptula which literally means good little diver that sounds like what someone would write
on their report card they prefer though to be a little bit quicker at their dives than piplup
with their typical dive lasting usually 20 to 35 seconds and not going deeper than 66 feet and you
know how if you're really lucky you get a shiny piplup or if you play pokemon go and it's piplup
community day it turns out that the little blue penguin comes in a variety of different shades of
blue depending on the geographic region so you could say that there is a shiny equivalent of
piplup in the real world and i feel like we should mention the down side of things no no not being a
debbie downer but the down like what piplap has to help it keep warm little blue penguin hatchlings
are covered in black down that is replaced in 8 to 14 days with chocolate brown down that lasts
until the chick is 26 to 29 days old and then it's replaced with feathers but my last favorite aspect
of piplup and little blue penguins is counter shading this is an excellent form of camouflage
that penguins and piplup have but allow them to not only blend in when they're swimming
to both prey and predators say for example your fish swimming below a penguin or piplup i guess
that would make you a magikarp and you look up chances are you might not see the penguin above
you because they're lighter colored on the bottom whereas if you were say a predator like a sharpedo
swimming above a piplup and you look down the darker blue color of piplup or penguin on its
back would also blend in with the dark depths of the ocean below this is one of the aspects that
make me think certainly the creators of pokemon paid attention to the finer details in life
but let's move on to turtwig and chimchar so for the next sinnoh starter that you can choose in
either pokemon brilliant diamond or shining pearl let's look at the tiny leaf pokemon aka turtwig
turtwig is one foot four inches tall and weighs 22 and a half pounds so a bit heftier than
piplup turtwig's shell is actually made of earth which gives us a vital hint as to the importance
of sun and water to this pokemon for they rely heavily on water to help keep its little tiny
plant nice and healthy and pokedex entries state that this is why they spend a lot of time near
lakes and speaking of their shell turtwig have the hidden ability shell armor which prevents pokemon
from receiving a critical hit even if the move being used against them would always land one that
can come in quite handy but looking at turtwig it made me think of a real-life pokemon that i have
literally with me all the time well at least i wish i could bring him to work because that
would be really cool i'm talking about my buddy texas. texas is a horsefields tortoise
and although his shell isn't quite made of earth like turtwigs is i certainly see some similarities
between ash's turtwig and the anime and my buddy texas cause they're both very dependable
very independent and also well quite charismatic aren't you boy yeah let's get a closer look
say cheese texas he's like dude i want some my pepper and dandelion and carrot
can you see his beak show it off mate oh yeah he's one cool dude i know texas doesn't live in
a pokeball he actually has a pretty nifty outdoor enclosure which we built earlier this year i'll
pop a link down to it in the description below so you can see how incredible his outdoor living
space is but this time of year he's about to go into hibernation so he's not quite outside are
you buddy gotta wait till next summer so like how turtwig relies on natural sunlight and water
to help its plant grow texas here and other horse field tortoises really do rely on sunlight as well
what is stuck in my hair it's really important to ensure that they get as
much natural sunlight as possible and when you do have to have them inside be sure to have
both uvb and uva rays available it's important with horsefield's tortoises or russian tortoises
as they're also known by to have as much natural sunlight as possible
that's why we built them a pretty spiffy outdoor enclosure however they're not always outside
especially if it's raining so when they're inside we make sure that they have both uvb and uva rays
uvb rays are vital because they allow texas and other horse field tortoises and other reptiles
to produce vitamin d which is essential for both the absorption and use of calcium if they
don't get this their risk of developing metabolic bone disease or mbd for short is quite high and
mbd is actually fatal so please please please take extra precaution if you are currently looking
after some friends like texas or considering to in the future to make sure you can supply them
with both uvb and uva rays and like how turtwig has a plant on its head quite literally i'd like
to think texas and friends well they certainly are plant heads as well but in a different sense
they are naturally herbivores and can browse on up to 200 different species of plants
that's a lot of variety in one's diet conveniently for us since we have a garden a lot of these
plants that they like to eat are actually considered to be weeds so therefore texas is
quite the help in the garden and again considering the importance of calcium we often supplement with
calcium powder on some of his salads as well just to make sure he's getting enough and while the
sunlight is certainly important remember churchwig was also quite reliant upon the water as well
texas gets a bath at least once a week this is to ensure that they get adequate hydration
and also helps them go to the bathroom the more you know and the final starter that you can choose
in pokemon brilliant diamond or shining pearl is chimchar the chimp pokemon chimchar is the tallest
of the three starters at one foot eight inches tall and weighs 13.7 pounds chimchar is also known
to be an excellent climber frequently living by the sides of cliffs so i guess that would
certainly come in handy being good at climbing now chimchar actually has gas that's made in its belly
that burns from its rear end of all things and when shenchar is sleeping it tones it down
just a bit you can also use this to identify if a chimchar is feeling unwell now i'm gonna be
honest with you guys i wasn't the biggest fan of chimchar until i recently watched the anime and
boy does ash love catching an underdog spoilers because ash's chimchar was actually rejected
allah flashbacks to charmander by his trainer for being too weak that ash saw greater potential
within this chimchar and they worked together to become one fierce team but what i liked about the
anime is that they showed a very different side of chimchar and one that reminds me of the real-life
chimchars of our world chimpanzees specifically the common chimpanzee of which there are actually
three subspecies but we won't get into that today now get this humans and chimpanzees
share 95 to 98 of the same dna so that means biologically speaking chimpanzees happen to be
closer related to us than gorillas i wonder if that holds true of chenchar being more closely
related to humans than say grooky now chimchar and chimpanzees both have a fiery attitude some
quite literally and some more figuratively for when chimpanzees are angry or frightened their
hair stands on end which makes me think of the fiery kind of spikes of chimchar more importantly
in the anime with both chimchar and infernape but also in terms of their displaying behavior
in the anime we see ash's chimchar well get quite frustrated sometimes and seem to throw a temper
tantrum turns out chimpanzees do this as well but scientists give it a nicer name of a display
rather than a tantrum although it's quite hard to differentiate between the two for when a male
chimp displays his hair too stands on end so they look bigger they scream they stomp they have quite
the outrage which makes me quite tough then that they decided to make chimchar a fire type because
of the expression of fiery temper but they're not all scary all the time so remember how i said
chimchar's rear end the little fire can go out when they're sleeping well turns out chimpanzees
they have something similar at least when they're infants for infant chimps have a white little tail
fluff that disappears when they get older isn't that cute guess the big question is now which one
are you going to choose and also which one do you think i'm going to go for
hmm is it piplup who's like the fairy blue penguin turchwig who's like my buddy texas the russian
tortoise or chimchar he's like a chimpanzee let me know down in the comments below and after you do
be sure to head on to the video right here on church wig where you can see my friend grace and i
have a blast discussing this adorable pokemon but also grace giving us a turtwig inspired makeover
go on click it i'll see you over there thanks so much for watching and i'll see you in that video