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[Scout is not entirely sure how to address the carnival like this, so there's a self-conscious sense to her voice.]

They're breeding, so we should probably get this done. If you brought an animal home from Alola, come share what it is so we know if there's any likelihood of it pairing off. Pokemon aren't speciated like normal animals. There are these broad categories they fit into where they can interbreed. This will result in an egg that will be like its mother, not a hybrid or something new.

I'm Scout, I have a togetic named Thranta. She'd be in two breeding groups, "flying" and "fairy", so she's compatible with anything in either of those if the sexes match. Right now I don't think she's that interested, but if I let her progress into her next instar maybe that'd change?

I can't tell you don't go out and encourage them, but you really should be careful and consider if you can handle a second or third animal. This isn't Alola and you can't just release them if you're tired of them.

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...Maybe he's too young?

[Scout pauses and sighs.]

Yeah I don't know. Litten are in that big general land group, just like mudsdale and arcanine and snubbull.

Right... I guess that is a risk. [Rita actually did have this information, but for some reason she never imagined this sort of thing would actually happen.]

Did you memorize all this stuff while we were there?

I took notes. Most of what I put down isn't useful outside of Alola, but I kept the stuff on Pokemon, since so many people took one.

Not a bad idea. I brought back a few books pertaining to Pokemon biology, myself... but as I recall, they weren't too specific about how reproduction works.

[Which at the time wasn't really a problem, because Rita was mainly concerned with their magic-like abilities.]

No one there was, and it just didn't occur to me to insist! It seemed rude, and trainers out on the go didn't seem worried about it.

[There's a sigh.]

Hope that means it's not an overly common occurrence...

I had the impression that people had to take their pokemon to that one ranch to get them to breed, but obviously it happened in the wild all the time.