User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-4361439-20130528183518/@comment-4361439-20130601172120

Yeah, as I said in my previous post, most of the Shakalaka's masks have those eyeholes and breathing/eating tubes. The masks serve to make their heads appear as bigger, and yet at the same time, because of this, it would also completely obscure the Shakalaka's eyesight, and make it difficult to breathe as well. Therefore, when the Shakalaka's are creating their masks, they add those eyeholes and breathing/eating tubes so as to keep the illusion of their size, but also be able to see and breathe/eat as well. That's my theory anyways.