That's right everyone! An Austrailian Wildlife Rescue Service based in Melbourne was fortunate enough to find a rare creature in the wild - and it was lucky they did. According to professionals, looking like a Pokemon might actually be a
bad thing for him instead of good. actually happened to catch - er, again, I mean rescue - what appears to be a real live Pikachu!
"One of the issues with unusual colors, particularly if they are pale, is that this is a nocturnal animal and if they are pale they are obvious to predators like an owl." - Kath Handasyde, Melbourne University Scholar
When she puts it like that, it's obvious. Sure, we all wish to have a dream Pokemon, but we don't want real animals to come to harm (even though that's sort of the premise behind the Anime to begin with...) and so we wouldn't place them in harm's way. Of course the light colored possums would be the first to get hurt in their natural habitats.
If you consider this a real life shiny, then Pikachu is the only possum of his color to be discovered in Australia, and so it has been decided not to release the animal back into it's natural habitat at this time. If you still want a Pikachu, however, feel free to check out Pokemon Go to scratch that itch!
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