A Sleepy Tapir
Here we have another awesome real-life animal that inspired one of the original first-generation Pokémon. Drowzee, a Psychic-type Pokémon, can hypnotize people and eat their dreams. Woah. While tapirs don’t exactly hypnotize humans on a regular basis, one look and you can tell the Pokémon designers definitely had this animal in mind.
Like Drowzee, tapirs have a short trunk, pointed ears, and a unique half-and-half coloring. Drowzee isn’t the only well-known character inspired by the tapir. Before Drowzee, there was the Baku, a creature from Japanese folklore. The Baku is said to devour nightmares and looks a lot like a tapir, too.