Crimson Qurupeco Ecology

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Taxonomy
Qurupeco subspeices are the relatives of the normal Qurupeco. It is a Bird Wyvern, related to Gypceros and Gagua.

Habitat Range
The Qurupeco subspeices inhabits the sub-tropical regions of the Volcano and Flooded Forest. Unlike the Normal Qurupeco, this subspeices can stand hotter climates.

Ecological Niche
It is a medium sized Bird Wyvern, and it is a little larger than the regular Qurupeco. This small size difference gives it a great advantage compared to the Qurupeco. It can hunt larger prey such as Aptonoth, Ludroth and Zuwaroposu. However, it is rarely seen hunting these monsters and is commonly seen eating fish, Jaggi and Small monsters.

Due to its size and thunder element, it can protect itself from other monsters which the regular Qurupeco may fail at, such as Royal Ludroth and Great Jaggi. It is preyed on by Tigrex, Rathalos, Nargacuga and Deviljho. Although it can be preyed upon by many monsters, it can also protect itself by calling Larger monster(s) to attack the monster(s) attacking it, which may end up in a big mess, or flee by blinding the monsters near it, by creating a bright flash using its unique wing talons, and flying away.

Biological Adaptions
Unlike regular Qurupeco, and due to where the Qurupeco subspeices lives, it has to face more dangerous monsters in the enviroments it lives in, mainly the Volcano. And it has evolved to deal with this.

The Qurupeco subspeices has evolved to deal with more dangerous monsters by upgrading its unique wing talons to cause the Element Thunder. Many monsters are weak to Thunder, such as Royal Ludroth and Nargacuga, and so this helps to protect it from them.

Qurupeco subspeices also has a red colouration and this only suits the Volcano. So, one can say that instead of using its colouration for camouflage, it uses it as a warning sign to other monsters to stay back.

Behavior
Qurupeco subspecies is more aggressive and larger than its normal relative, and it probably has to be due to where it lives.

The theory that the red colouration of this monster is a warning sign may be backed up with the fact that this monster is very aggressive, and to tell other monsters that trying to have a meal out of it was a bad idea.