Absolutely enamoured by the idea of a real life person seeing like, a hunting dog or a pack mule, or a farm animal or something, and referring to it as “mysterious creature.”
[walking Route 12, sees a swarm of Magikarp, begins shaking] oh god, oh fuck, what....what ARE you...
Well there’s only, like, 6 people studying pokémon in a given region.
there’s about two people in my area studying animal biology but that doesn’t make me think birds are some kind of anomaly