User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-4212769-20120919100246

You maybe saw my theory about the Bracchidios' slime. If not here it is:

http://monsterhunter.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Lord_Loss/Monster_Hunter_Theory..._Blog#comm-164150

(Just read it all, even if the subject is another one first)

I need to change it as my theory is partly false. On the Wikipedia page with the title "Enzyme" I read that enzymes are catalysts not inhibitors, what makes my theory false but really easy to explain.

In the end Bracchidios just needs to produce those enzymes before each punch/hit to make them explode. It gives a certain amount in that accelerates the reaction so far that it can explode slowly. And when it is in Rage Mode it produces small amounts of them that far that they don't explode but coming closer to the reaction making the time shorter they need to explode.

About the licking: It's probably only a cleaning process (like cats licking their body) as it hits often the ground what leaves some stones/mud/snow rests in the slime that it put away by licking. So it doesn't have a function in fight. (similar to Blangonga's habit to clean his pelt)