User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-81.159.201.139-20130107171425/@comment-4212769-20130113172924

But only for things it sees often/it lives on and colors. I haven't seen any animal that has adapted to look like another animal to such extent. And how should the adaptation begin at all? Why would it evolve a Lao-Shan Skull looking thing on it's back if there are several much easier ways to solve that? For example using the skulls of other monsters for the exactly same effect?

Also when you break the skulls shouldn't there be some kind of connection to the body like rests of the skull or a sign where it was connected? And why would Shogun have a second skull as replacement if it isn't grown? Also the second skull can be a Gravios skull if the first wasn't one, what doesn't fit to your theory as the Gravios skull is still the same size.

This kind of mimicry just doesn't make sense evolutionary and technically. The skulls could be just partly eroded. I think the hermit crab (as the name suggests) is the image they were influenced in the design. I think I will make a theory about why those monsters grow so large that are used as carapace for the Carapaceons in the Theory Wiki.