Cubone's mther and its skull helmet

[Drakon]

This has been puzzling (and weirding me out) for a while.

If the skull that Cubone wears is from its dead mother... then what happens to the female Cubone in the daycare, when a baby Cubone is hatched?

 

[The Outrage]

http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/showthread.php?t=22579

Just read that old Cubone thread, this question pops up so much that I don't feel like reposting what's been stated.

Short answer: Urban Myth

 

[Aviculor]

that...or maybe female Cubones die after birth and yet another plothole exists in the world of pokemon breeding. not everything can lay eggs; courtship, conception and egg laying happen in an extremely short amount of time; pokemon like Cubone, Meowth and Farfetch'd hatch already with their non-body part parts; Vulpix is supposed to hatch with one tail; etc.

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

Maybe breeding in captivity is different than breeding in the wild. Since you raise the egg instead and all--maybe in the wild, baby Cubones eat their mother or something. And then feel JUST AWFUL about it for the rest of their lives. Haha.

 

[~Shimmer Shock~]

Crystal: It lost its mother after its birth. It wears its mother's skull, never revealing its true face.

above: the pokedex, it seems to imply that she just... dies


so the real question is: why dose it take her skull?

 

[Amewsment]

To mourn I suspect, anyways "L" pretty much gave the answer regarding the opening question. It simply cannot work all the time, otherwise the population dies out and what do siblings do etc.

 

[vee2x_paradox]

I thought it was concluded that some of the PokeDex entries were mythological tales and not factual information?