Hairy Bulborb

Hairy Bulborb
Appears in	Pikmin 2
Scientific name	Oculus kageyamii folliculus
Family	Grub-dog
Areas	None
Caves	Subterranean Complex, Frontier Cavern, Hole of Heroes, Dream Den
Challenge Mode stages	Collector's Room, Cave of Pain, Emperor's Realm
2-Player Battle stages	None
Attacks	Eat Pikmin

The Hairy Bulborb (ケチャッピー^?, lit.: "Fur Chappy") is an enemy in Pikmin 2. Hairy Bulborbs are similar in appearance to other Bulborbs, but have white backs with blue spots and a lot of fluffy, white fur. When this creature's health begins to fall, so does its hair, revealing its blue spots, making it more closely resemble its breadbug mimic, though larger in size. Hairy Bulborbs are similar in most respects to other mature bulborbs, but tend to live in colder environments. They have less health and are slightly slower than the Red Bulborb, but can be defeated using similar techniques.

Stats

Weight	Max. carriers	Seeds	Value	Health	Regen.
10	20	12	× 7	650	No

Behavior

A sleeping Hairy Bulborb.

Hairy Bulborbs are nocturnal creatures found in colder climates such as the Valley of Repose, found in caves. This exposes them to being attacked by Pikmin due to the fact that they won't awake unless attacked. They can also awaken if bumped into or if a carried object hits them.

Once awoken, they become aggressive and will attempt to eat any nearby Pikmin. If it manages to successfully catch any Pikmin, it will then stand still to eat them. If it fails to catch any Pikmin, it will trip and then get up to try once more. If there's multiple Pikmin attacking the Hairy Bulborb, it will shake them off and attempt to catch Pikmin once more.

If the Grub-Dog loses track of the Pikmin or Leader, it will then look around and fall back asleep once more.

Contrary to some rumors, the Hairy Bulborb has no special traits that make it mechanically different from the Red Bulborb, outside of its slightly less health and slightly slower movement speed.

Locations

Story Mode

Caves

• Subterranean Complex
  • Two Hairy Bulborbs can be found on sublevel 1, usually near Snow Bulborbs or poison emitters.
• Frontier Cavern
  • Two Hairy Bulborbs can be found on sublevel 1.
  • A Hairy Bulborb can be found on sublevel 2, usually sitting out in the open.
• Hole of Heroes
  • A Hairy Bulborb can be found on sublevel 9, usually nestled amongst the other Grub-dogs.
• Dream Den
  • A Hairy Bulborb can be found on sublevel 2, typically surrounded by its smaller mimics and in range of the Gatling Groink's mortar fire.
  • Two Hairy Bulborbs can be found on sublevel 13, surrounded by their close relatives.

Challenge Mode

• Collector's Room
  • A Hairy Bulborb can be found on sublevel 4, sitting alone, out in the open. It contains The Key to the next sublevel.
• Cave of Pain
  • A Hairy Bulborb can be found on the cave's only sublevel, falling from the sky when either Pikmin or a leader get close enough to the area its falls down to. It contains a Combustion Berry.
• Emperor's Realm
  • A Hairy Bulborb can be found on sublevel 1. It contains The Key to the next sublevel.

Strategy

The following article or section contains guides. The strategies shown are just suggestions.

Pikmin

The Hairy Bulborb should be attacked while sleeping and approached carefully to delay it waking up as late as possible. If accidentally awakened, it can be made to fall back asleep by leaving it alone for a while. As with other mature bulborbs, this creature's attacks are biting and shaking, biting being the more harmful.

As with most fights, Purple Pikmin are the most effective, and cause serious damage when thrown; the impact should stun the Bulborb, and it can be taken out quickly. Without Purple Pikmin, defeating one is trickier; rather than swarming it, try continuously tossing Pikmin, preferably Red Pikmin, onto its back. If necessary, using an ultra-bitter spray to petrify the beast and swarming it with a fairly large army makes for an easy battle.

Leaders

Like all bulborbs, the Hairy Bulborb can be killed by a leader, but it will take a while. One must be careful to dodge the creature's bite and, to a lesser extent, keep away when it shakes, as this damages leaders as well.

Biology

Bulborbs are among the creatures with the most diverse physiology in the Pikmin series, and the Hairy Bulborb is quite similar in design to them. They possess traits similar to those of amphibians, reptiles, and mammals. Hairy Bulborb's have large bulbous eyes set in stalks, as opposed to the compound eyes of most insects. These eyes are a shade of dark blue. They are mostly white in color, matching their snowy environment and with a brown nose.

The Hairy Bulborb also has a coat of white fur on its back which is an exclusive adaptation to the Grub-Dog family, as well as being a rare adaption as most creatures on the planet lack hair in general. Olimar states that it is used to warm their vital organs, which allows the creature to survive in their colder climates. Additionally, the hair follicles are quite weak, as when they lose half of their health they shed the fur. This could be an adaptation used to scare away any potential predators which have caught the beast by surprise, allowing for a rapid escape.

Once the fur has been shed, it reveals the creatures blue colored spots, unlike the regular Bulborbs white spots on a red body.

There have never been any confirmed juvenile Hairy Bulborbs in the franchise as the closest seen are the Snow Bulborbs, which are Breadbug mimics. Hairy Bulborbs have been spotted sleeping near the mimics, which could be due to the creature thinking that they are young Hairy Bulborbs. The only true juvenile Bulborbs are Dwarf Frosty Bulborbs. There are Bulborb Larva and Albino Dwarf Bulborbs which are juvenile Grub-Dogs, however it is unknown whether they can mature into Hairy Bulborbs.

According to the notes from Olimar, when certain environmental changes occur, a female Bulborb can turn herself into an Empress Bulblax, taking on the role of a pack matriarch and birthing a lot of larvae. The Empress Bulblax has a similar appearance to the Bulborb as both have a red body with white spots. This means that it’s possible for a Hairy Bulborb variant of the Empress Bulblax to exist and that similar behavior could occur.

We also see that Bulbmin are a type of Pikmin which infect other creatures to take control of them. The only seen host up to Pikmin 4 is that of a Bulborb, however, Olimar implied in his notes that it’s possible for other creatures to be hosts so its possible that a Hairy Bulbmin variant exists.

Notes

Olimar's notes

“This subspecies of grub-dog has a thick coat of soft white fur that obscures its abdominal markings. The fur also warms its vital organs, making this species well adapted to colder climates. However, its hair follicles are surprisingly frail, which can result in immediate hair loss if the creature is surprised.”

Louie's notes

“Remove all of the bulborb's hair, wrap the beast in foil along with a halved lemon, and place it directly on the grill. The foil should protect the carcass from scorching, and the lemon will give the meat an elegant hint of citrus.”

Pikmin 2 Nintendo Player's Guide

“As dangerous as any other giant Bulborb, the Hairy variety loses its fur as soon as you attack it. If the creature charges, keep tossing Pikmin at it, and stay away from its chompers.”

Technical information

Pikmin 2 technical information (?)
Internal name			yellowchappy
Global properties (List)
ID	Japanese comment	Property	Value
s000	friction(not used)	Friction	0.5
s001	wallReflection	Unknown (wall bounce speed multiplier?)	0.5
s002	faceDirAdjust	Unknown	0.25
s003	accel	Acceleration	0.1
s004	bounceFactor	Unknown (bounce when it hits the ground?)	0.3
fp00	ライフ	HP	650
fp01	マップとの当り	Unknown (related to slopes)	40
fp02	ダメージスケールXZ	Horizontal damage scale	0.3
fp03	ダメージスケールY	Vertical damage scale	0.3
fp04	ダメージフレーム	Damage scale duration	0.35
fp05	質量	Unknown (weight?)	0.1
fp06	速度	Move speed	90
fp08	回転速度率	Rotation acceleration	0.4
fp09	テリトリー	Territory radius	400
fp10	ホーム範囲	"Home" radius	15
fp11	プライベート距離	"Private" radius	70
fp12	視界距離	Sight radius	500
fp13	視界角度	FOV	90
fp14	探索距離	Unknown (exploration radius?)	500
fp15	探索角度	Unknown (exploration angle?)	90
fp16	振り払い率	Successful shake rate	1
fp17	振り払い力	Shake knockback	120
fp18	振り払いダメージ	Shake damage	1
fp19	振り払い範囲	Shake range	40
fp20	攻撃可能範囲	Unknown (shock attack max range?)	75
fp21	攻撃可能角度	Unknown (shock attack max angle?)	25
fp22	攻撃ヒット範囲	Unknown (attack hit range?)	80
fp23	攻撃ヒット角度	Unknown (attack hit angle?)	35
fp24	攻撃力	Attack damage	10
fp25	視界高	Unknown (height visibility?)	50
fp26	探索高	Unknown (exploration height?)	50
fp27	ライフの高さ	HP wheel height	90
fp28	回転最大速度	Rotation speed	4
fp29	警戒時間	Unknown (warning time?)	7
fp30	警戒ライフ	Unknown	30
fp31	ライフ回復率	Regeneration rate	0
fp32	LOD半径	Off-camera radius	40
fp33	マップとのあたりポリゴンの選定	Collision processing radius	50
fp34	ピクミンとのあたり	Pikmin damage radius	30
fp35	石化時間	Petrification duration	1
fp36	ヒップドロップダメージ	Purple Pikmin drop damage	50
fp37	地震気絶確立	Purple Pikmin stun chance	0.3 (30%)
fp38	地震気絶時間	Purple Pikmin stun time	5
ip01	振り払い打撃Ａ	Shake mode 1 – hit count	6
ip02	振り払い張付１	Shake mode 1 – Pikmin requirement	5
ip03	振り払い打撃Ｂ	Shake mode 2 – hit count	12
ip04	振り払い張付２	Shake mode 2 – Pikmin requirement	10
ip05	振り払い打撃Ｃ	Shake mode 3 – hit count	17
ip06	振り払い張付３	Shake mode 3 – Pikmin requirement	20
ip07	振り払い打撃Ｄ	Shake mode 4 – hit count	22
Specific properties
ID	Japanese comment	Property	Value
fp01	足元範囲	Determines rotation speed while standing (lower values give faster rotations)	30
fp02	白ピクミン毒	White Pikmin poison damage	650

Other information

• Size: Body length: 90mm, as per the e-card
• Pikmin 2 Piklopedia number: #2

Naming

See more: Grub-dog family#Naming.

• Common name: Hairy Bulborb. The defining characteristic of this bulborb is its hair, hence the name "hairy".
• Japanese nickname: ケチャッピー^?. It simply translates to "Fur Chappy", with "Chappy" being the Japanese name for "bulborb".
• Japanese name: シラガデメマダラ^?, lit.: "Spotted White-haired Bug-eye". According to Olimar's notes, the word シラガ^? (lit.: "white hair") is also a reference to the ease with which it loses its hair.
• Scientific name: Oculus kageyamii folliculus. It shares the Oculus kageyammi species name from other grub-dogs, and folliculus is Latin for "follicle"; the hair follicle is the mammalian organ that produces hairs.
• Internal names: Internally, this enemy is called yellowchappy. The reason for this is because initially, yellow and blue bulborbs were meant to be included in the game. What started off as a yellow bulborb eventually became the Hairy Bulborb.
• Prerelease: None.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ケチャッピー? Ke Chappī	Fur Chappy
French	Bulborbe poilu	Hairy Bulborb
German	Pelz-Punktkäfer	Fur Bulborb
Italian	Coleto Peloso	Hairy Bulborb
Spanish	Bulbo peludo	Hairy bulb

Gallery

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  A Hairy Bulborb chasing Louie and some Purple Pikmin.

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  A Hairy Bulborb in Challenge Mode.

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  A Hairy Bulborb in the Piklopedia.

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  A Hairy Bulborb, seen in an unused cave, challenge_2.

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  A Hairy Bulborb in another unused cave, caveinfo_toy.

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  The Piklopedia icon of the Hairy Bulborb in the Nintendo Switch version of Pikmin 2.

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  The corpse of a Hairy Bulborb.

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  The Hairy Bulborb's e-card, #02 (2^nd yellow card).

Trivia

• In the Pikmin 2 prototype, Louie strangely seems to refer to the Hairy Bulborb as a bird, saying things such as to "pluck the feathers" instead of the hair, or mentioning that the foil should "protect the bird from scorching". It's possible that in the game's very early stages, the Hairy Bulborb was once a bird-related creature.
• The Japanese version of the Hairy Bulborb's recipe was drastically changed in the American version. Instead of the Bulborb being grilled in foil, it says to brew the hair into a drink which, according to the notes, increases blood circulation. This might refer to how the hair keeps the bulborb's vital organs warm, as stated in Olimar's notes.
• Louie's notes say that one should pull out the hairs, though the creature's hair already falls off on its own when it dies.
• The Hairy Bulborb and Snow Bulborb are featured heavily in unused and template caves, likely as placeholder/test enemies. This possibly stems from their origin as yellow Bulborbs, which were often seen as placeholders in prerelease material.
• Olimar’s notes about the Hairy Bulborb features a contradiction as he calls it both a subspecies and a species.

See also

• Snow Bulborb
• Whiptongue Bulborb