User blog comment:Aandrew07/Discussion of the Week: Subspecies/@comment-1773866-20121023012615/@comment-4212769-20121024140859

It is canon.

First, how we can see in our theories many phenomenons can be explained by our world's logic. And Capcom surely tried to put Monster Hunter as near as possible to the reality or we couldn't come up that easily with theories that also work in reality. Conclusion: Monster Hunter is built up like our world as real as possible and should work as much as possible like our world.

Second, you don't seem to understand how evolution works. A monster doesn't move there it slowly adapts to harsher environments. It's possible that the ancestor of both Blangongas came from the Snowy Mountains or Desert as well though it would take a lot time to finally adapt to the Desert so I assumed that the Blangonga ancestor was in a zone in between while one group adapting to the Desert the other adapting to the Snowy Mountains. We maybe not know exactly where the Proto-Blangonga lived but I believe it's likely that it didn't live in the Snowy Mountains or Desert.

Third, evolution is a ongoing progress. Means while the Proto-Blangonga colony moved into different areas the evolution didn't stop with Copper Blangonga and Common Blangonga but goes on adapting more and more to their environment. That also means when you say Blangonga goes into the desert and evolves to Copper Blangonga the Blangongas in the Snowy Mountains aren't like the Blangonga that moved there anymore as they also evolved further. Btw, that is also a splitting of two groups evolving in two different directions like my example. That is your little flaw. (No offense, I have made the same mistake once)

And Fourth, you say that I say that both aren't capable of evolution. I've clearly shown you now that they are also in my theory. I actually thought it would be clear that it was like that. However, how you explain it is that those who moved are capable of evolving and those who stayed aren't. You see where I'm going I guess...

So yes, it's meant to be like this so it's probably canon. A coincidence would be very ridiculous in the way Capcom built up Monster Hunter. So I guess we can explain MH when we use our real world logic.