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That's really unecessarily specific. Axolotl was already mentioned, and it is indeed a larval Salamander. None of this was wrong.
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(That's really unecessarily specific. Axolotl was already mentioned, and it is indeed a larval Salamander. None of this was wrong.) |
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===Origin=== | ===Origin=== | ||
{{bulbanews|On the Origin of Species: Wooper}} | {{bulbanews|On the Origin of Species: Wooper}} | ||
Wooper seems to be based on a | Wooper seems to be based on a larval {{wp|salamander}}, which has a flat tail and feathery, external gills. Its {{Shiny}} sprite gives it a similar coloration to that of {{wp|albino}}, {{wp|leucistic}}, and flavistic color mutants. | ||
====Name origin==== | ====Name origin==== | ||
Wooper and Upah are derived from ''wooper looper'', a marketing term created in Japan that started a pet salamander raising fad. Wooper loopers are the Japanese term for the {{wp|axolotl}}. | Wooper and Upah are derived from ''wooper looper'', a marketing term created in Japan that started a pet salamander raising fad. Wooper loopers are the Japanese term for the {{wp|axolotl}}, a species of {{wp|salamander}}. | ||
==In other languages== | ==In other languages== | ||