POKEMON GEN 6 ANNOUNCED

[Kriven]

I think Zac means ones like Yamask, which are technically spirits of dead humans. I think most Ghost-type Pokemon probably aren't alive, but it's actually quite hard to define what is and what isn't alive. The word "alive" itself is defined by real-life biology, so we can't really use it to discuss Pokemon.

Well.... they were alive.

And actually, the fact that Yamask is a Pokemon actually created from humans adds an interesting dimension to the Human/Pokemon relationship.

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what makes them animals? sure they have traits of animals, personalities, but so do characters like yanmask, which are actual confirmed dead people
pokemon like vilplume (flower) and victreebell (fly catcher) are plants, and there pokemon classifications confirm that just as much as pikachu's classification makes it an animal(mouse)
also amoebas are protozoa not animals. just because they share some attributes doesn't just make them all animals. life isn't that simple. protozoa and animals are as related as animals and plants. that's even farther back then plants and fungi are related.

Plants have eyes now?

http://faculty.fmcc.suny.edu/mcdarby/ani...otozoa.htm

In general, the protozoans are unicellular animals...