User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Raptorial Bird Wyverns/@comment-7584137-20131101181127/@comment-1011548-20131102162959

MH3U Intro Cinematic, gets killed by Azure Rathalos, and in Deviljho's 3U intro he kills and eats Great Jaggi.

I think it's clearly a running joke by the devs at this point.