User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-28303251-20140108005717/@comment-1758220-20140125221849

Referring to any monster as male or female that isn't specifically referred to as such (Rathian, Rathalos, Teostra, Lunastra, etc.) is pretty silly and pointless. It's assumed that any other monsters include, as usual, both male and female members and therefore the correct term when referring to these monsters is "it".

I can't really figure out why people would do that.