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*Though Mareep's primary color is stated to be white, it is mostly yellow and black, and doesn't contain any large amount of white color. | *Though Mareep's primary color is stated to be white, it is mostly yellow and black, and doesn't contain any large amount of white color. | ||
===Origin=== | ===Origin=== | ||
It appears to be simply based on a sheep, although it might borrow its electric aspect from the way wool builds up static charges. | It appears to be simply based on a sheep, although it might borrow its electric aspect from the way wool builds up static charges. Its pre-evolutions can only be caught in grassy areas near water and may possibly be a personification of a lighthouse with an ovine base when considering it final evolution, {{main|Ampharos}}, has been involved with a lighthouse in both the games and the anime. | ||
====Name origin==== | ====Name origin==== | ||
Mareep's name appears to be a combination of the word ''Mary'' — as in the girl who owned a little lamb in the nursery rhyme — and ''{{wp|sheep}}''; ''Mareep'' is also an anagram of the word ''{{wp|ampere}}'', a unit of electric current. | Mareep's name appears to be a combination of the word ''Mary'' — as in the girl who owned a little lamb in the nursery rhyme — and ''{{wp|sheep}}''; ''Mareep'' is also an anagram of the word ''{{wp|ampere}}'', a unit of electric current. | ||