Is Squirtle part squirrel?

Its Japanese name (Zenigame) has nothing to do with squirrels. The tail isn't a squirrel tail, it's part of a reference to the Minogame, a turtle said to live for 10,000 years that has a tail made of seaweed (this is more obvious with Wartortle's tail).
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Is Squirtle a turtle or a squirrel?

Squirtle, known as the Tiny Turtle Pokémon, are turtle Pokémon with large eyes and chubby cheeks, capable of moving either on two feet or on all fours. Their skin is a light blue, and they possess a long, curled tail.
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What animal is Squirtle based on?

Squirtle is clearly based on an aquatic turtle, though there don't seem to be any in nature that are actually blue.
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What type of turtle is Squirtle?

Squirtle is clearly a water turtle, but remember, not all turtles are sea turtles!
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Is there a squirrel Pokémon?

Skwovet is a squirrel-like Pokémon. It is grayish-brown in color, with a large fluffy tail, which is dark-grayish-brown at the top.
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Is Bulbasaur a turtle?

In the Pokémon franchise, Bulbasaur are small, squat amphibian and plant Pokémon that move on all four legs, and have light purple bodies with darker blue-green spots. As a Bulbasaur undergoes evolution into Ivysaur and then later into Venusaur, the bulb on its back blossoms into a large flower.
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What animal is Blastoise based on?

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It's evident that these are the main two things that the Water-Type is based off just by looking at the creature. Blastoise is based on many different things, but tanks for its cannons and turtles for its shell are the two most obvious.
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What animal is Bulbasaur based on?

Although Bulbasaur isn't as easily identifiable, it is based on animals that are already associated with plants (and poison). Bulbasaur and its evolutions are partially based on arboreal (tree-living) frogs belonging to Hylidae (tree frogs) and Dendrobatidae (poison dart frogs).
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Is Charmander a lizard?

Charmander are small, bipedal lizard-like Pokémon native to Kanto. They have blue eyes, orange skin, three-clawed toes, yellow bellies, and a single yellow pad covering most of the bottom of each foot.
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What animal is Eevee based on?

Eevee shares most traits with the fennec fox. However, it's also based on dogs, cats and rabbits. Eevee is said to have an irregularly-shaped genetic structure, enabling it to evolve into multiple Pokémon. So even if it's still mainly speculation, it's safe to say the Eevee has primarily fox-like traits after all.
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What animal is Charmander based on?

Charmander is likely a familiar figure to even the most casual acquaintance of the series, and it takes its inspiration from the salamander.
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Is Squirtle half turtle half squirrel?

It's Japanese name (Zenigame) has nothing to do with turtles. The tail isn't a squirrel tail, it's part of a reference to the Minogame, a turtle said to live for 10,000 years that has a tail made of seaweed (this is more obvious with Wartortle's tail).
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What animal is Pikachu?

Pikachu had long felt like a distant relative to those two, but, during an interview, game designer Atsuko Nishida, who worked on the original Pokemon Gameboy games, noted that the iconic character isn't based on a mouse at all. Pikachu is a squirrel.
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Does Ash's Squirtle evolve?

Squirtle is the only member of Ash's original team of six (Pikachu, Butterfree, Pidgeot, Bulbasaur, Charizard, and itself) that has neither evolved nor ever explicitly refused to evolve.
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What animal is Charmeleon based on?

chameleon, (family Chamaeleonidae), any of a group of primarily arboreal (tree-dwelling) Old World lizards best known for their ability to change body colour.
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What animal is Mewtwo?

Mewtwo is a bipedal feline-like Pokémon. Its appearance is loosely based on Mew, with a more of a mutated humanoid look in addition to its feline traits. Its body is purple and it has three fingers on each hand. Mewtwo projects a faint purple aura when at full power.
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Is Venusaur a frog or toad?

Get a look at those gams. After 22 years, many Pokémon fans are shocked to find out that one of the original Pokémon moves like a frog with its very shapely legs.
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What animal is chikorita?

Chikorita is a small dinosaur-like Pokémon, particularly resembling a Sauropoda.
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Is Ash Bulbasaur a boy?

In the English dub of Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village, it was implied by Ash that Bulbasaur is male. When Melanie asked Ash if Bulbasaur would make a good addition to his team, Ash said "Would he ever," implying that it is male.
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Is Ash in a coma?

It states that the main character, Ash Ketchum, is actually in a coma, and all the other episodes of the Pokémon anime after episode 1 are all dreams while he's in a coma.
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Why is Meowth the only talking Pokémon?

So Meowth decided to make himself as human as he could. He learned to walk on two legs by watching people practice at a local dance academy, which also just so happened to offer pronunciation lessons. Over time, and with a little help from a picture book, he learned to sound out words.
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