![]() I don't think it can't hear itself sing, because in every 1st gen episode it was in, it got mad that everyone fell asleep during its song. Perhaps when Jigglypuff sings, the direction and application of it's voice are ONLY directed towards everywhere but itself. Posts with unsourced content may be edited or deleted. Want to improve this post? Add citations from reputable sources by editing the post. However, I present the hypothesis that their nervous system reacts to the stimuli in a different way than other animals, humans and pokémon, possibly due to a different, yet to be discovered signalling molecule mutation. The exact mechanism by which jigglypuffs’ singing does not sing themselves to sleep would have to be researched by pokémon researchers in the pokéworld. Therefore, evolution probably selected those jigglypuffs who were able to withstand their own singing (and possibly also those, who enjoyed other jigglypuffs’ singing). In any case, if jigglypuff were able to sing itself to sleep, that would be evolutionarily very unfavourable since it would present an easy target. Potentially, one could assume that singing was either a method of self-defence (a sleeping predator cannot attack jigglypuff) or an attack method (a sleeping victim cannot run away). This could be traced back to a modification of said sodium channels that render them immune against tetrodotoxin.Ī similar mechanism could and should be acting with respect to jigglypuff’s song. However, even more interesting is the fact that the common garter snake, a natural predator of the rough-skinned newt, has also developped some immunity. Naturally, it is interesting that all species harbouring these bacteria seem immune to tetrodotoxin. They are not the only species to use this toxin as a defence mechanism among others, so does the rough-skinned newt. It is not produced by the fish itself but by numerous bacterial symbiontic species. This should affect all higher vertebrates that rely on nervous signaling. Tetrodotoxin acts by inhibiting nervous sodium channels and thereby inhibits nerve signal transfer. While no species (to the best of my knowledge) is known that can send other individuals to sleep by singing, practically every species produces some kind of natural products that are fatal or unpleasant to others.Ĭonsider, for example, tetrodotoxin known as the poisonous ingredient of pufferfish or fugu. This can be answered well with typical concepts of biology.
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