User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-5043481-20121021210526/@comment-71.203.144.9-20121030000908

^ Just skip to the last paragraph if you just want to get to my main point.

I just don't think that really makes sense. Like I said, having the ability to run or fly does not guarantee escape. It's too slow of a flyer, and not very maneuverable while running. Akantor didn't just walk up close enough to gravios to where he could touch him just by standing there. Akantor pounced at the gravios from a fair distance, and even slammed gravios into a wall if you look close enough. Just because Akantor is confined to the ground and gravios has wings, doesn't mean that flying would make gravios any less vulnerable. Flying seems like the less whise idea considering that gavios is not made to fly well at all.

I know it could have continued walking, just at a more brisk pace as soon as he noticed the Akantor behind him, but Akantor is no slow poke compared to gravios. He's slow, but not lazy Assuming the land was fairly flat with little to no obstacles, then maybe gravios could have made the judgement to run. Looking at the landscape in the video though; walls appear to surround the area. So charging out of there doesn't appear to be a very reasonable or effective option.

My final point is that realistically, gravios only had 10 seconds to decide whether to stay and fight or run, and then escape. To us that may sound like nothing, but all we have to do is turn our head to check behind us. Gravios has to turn its entire body (Not all the way around. Just enough to be able to turn its head so that it can see behind it.) and bend its neck to check behind it, and that took roughly three seconds. So now gravios only has seven seconds to make a decision since he spent three seconds turning around to find out that Akantor is trailing him. If he decides to run he will probably only spend two seconds to turn back around in a hurry, and then has five seconds to start running. So basically, he only really had 3 seconds to make a decision, and seven seconds to make an escape assuming he decides to run. The time left in the video cannot be taken into consideration as that time is spent engaging each other. The only reason Akantor stopped to roar at gravios was probably to provoke a challenge rather than looking like he's stocking the wyvern and scaring him off. If gravios didn't turn around to notice him, Akantor probably would have picked up the pace to close the distance and attack him. That would probably take less than 10 or so seconds, without being noticed. Really, the rest of the video after 15 seconds is just a result of gravios turning around and Akantor being noticed. The first 5 seconds of the video, gravios doesn't know Akantor is there yet.

So as I see it gravios only had 7 seconds to escape after noticing Akantor. I'm not saying that you're completely wrong. I actually agree that gravios could have escaped, but only if Akantor approached the situation differently. Akantor presented himself as a challenger to gravios rather than a predator, which provoked the gravios to stay and duke it out. Akantor only approached gravios so openly as a result of being noticed by its aggressive prey which stood its ground rather than immediately running off. So in that way, gravios also presented itself as a challenger to Akantor. The resulting fight was really just a misjudgement on the gravios' part, so I kind of agree with you. I just wouldn't say he had all the time in the world to escape, and escape itself would not have been so easy.