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Marill's name, {{Shiny}} color scheme, and tail might also indicate that it is based on {{wp|marimo}}, free-floating, spherical balls of algae that are also known as lake balls or moss balls. | Marill's name, {{Shiny}} color scheme, and tail might also indicate that it is based on {{wp|marimo}}, free-floating, spherical balls of algae that are also known as lake balls or moss balls. | ||
Marill's ability to change gender upon evolving from Azurill may be a reference to the real-world natural phenomenon of {{wp|sequential hermaphorditism}}, which is when an organism is able to change its sex at some point in its life, usually to address an imbalance in the breeding population, and is observed in many species of fish, gastropods and plants. | |||
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