I choose YOU, Passenger Pigeon!

[amethyst73]

Stumbled upon this and this earlier today, surfing at random from In the Pipeline (in links collection up top).  Apparently, little kids are really really good at memorizing physical names and characteristics of Pokemon characters - not a surprise; think about the last dinosaur-crazy kid you met.  In this particular study, the children interviewed were much better at identifying Pokemon characters than they were with real-world animals.  Indicates a need for exposing them to more real-world stuff, huh.

(I haven't read the actual Science article yet; hopefully will do in the next few days.