Quickies: Going to the Safari

I used to live in a place that is quite nearby from a major safari park. Though I have only the slightest recollection that I had ever visited the place, it became a corner of my life back then. The cornerstone of my life today is Pokémon, and it too has links to the safari park, at least as a concept, as some installments of its main series games contain a "Safari Zone" that by and large replicates the concept. Yet there is one important difference: whereas the real safari park is more like a wildlife reserve where one goes to see animals as they are up close, the Safari Zones of the Pokémon games are more like hunting grounds from which one comes away not just with an experience but useful Pokémon for different purposes, including but not limited to battling.

Even with my faint recollection, one thing I can verify is that one goes into the safari park in a covered vehicle and has to stay there during the time that one is in the park. In contrast, one goes into the Safari Zones with oneself and the tools that one need to capture Pokémon. Evidently, the safari can be a dangerous place (or definitely is, in the case of the real-world park), whatever the creatures that might be present. At the same time, there is a sense that the creatures of Pokémon may be a little less dangerous in this regard - with people being allowed freely inside without some sort of protective stipulation - and the relationship of mutualism is somehow honored between the creatures and the people.

Today, "Safari Zones" live on as regular real events for Pokémon Go... or would be, if it weren't for the current conditions of the world. And while the safari park of concern may be open at times and allow for visitors to enjoy the park as intended, it may perhaps not be the best idea to do so while things in the world are still not in good condition. It is still fascinating that people of both worlds can go to the safari for different ways of enjoying the respective creatures of their world. I, for one, might just be interested in recollecting my old memories of the safari park if it ever becomes appropriate; in the meantime, the Pokémon kind of "safari" might just be the thing to tide over until the former can actually happen.

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