US Fish & Wildlife wants to remind you of real-life Pokemon - CNET

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With non-stop media coverage of the Pokemon Go mobile game, the folks at US Fish & Wildlife, or USFW, are hoping to get people excited about finding real-world animals, insects and plants that look a lot like their cute gaming counterparts.

"Recently a number of digital wildlife called Pokemon have been spotted at many of our national wildlife refuges, fish hatcheries and wetlands, visible only through an appropriately configured smartphone," USFW posted on its blog Thursday.

"In an effort to provide a field guide of sorts for people interested in catching these elusive creatures, we also wanted to introduce you to some of their real counterparts," USFW added. "As people come to these places looking for digital wildlife, be on the lookout for these real world species too."

The featured creatures include the adorable Spicebush Swallowtail Caterpillar, which looks a lot like the Caterpie and also has eyespots it uses as a defense mechanism to deter predators.

Then there's the common tadpole that shares similar attributes with the Pokemon Poliwag, including hind legs and bulbous eyes.

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