User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-5460283-20120916162115/@comment-71.203.144.9-20121025225335

Before, I was kind leaning towards some idiot dropping monsters in the middle of moga woods just for the heck of it, but when I think about it, I'd have to say I'm somewhere inbetween, the monsters going there on their own, and the monsters were put there. Both sides seem to put up a little arguement, but from what you've all posted, I've formed my own hypotheses and theories towards this query.

Someone earlier has suggested that diablos might not only eat cactus, the arguement being... well, just that they're vegetarian. The problem with that is they aren't really built to eat anything other than the large and flat cacti. The large pointed protrusions on the front of their mouths isn't adequate to pull leaves off the branches of trees, their horns would get in the way of trying to eat grass, and there doesn't appear to be any proper teeth formation that could aid in properly ingesting either grass or the leaves off trees and bushes. Diablos can only eat cactus, or possibly other large, thick leaved plants such as aloe. It was already mentioned earlier by PurpleisGood that moga woods is not sandy enough for diablos to get around the way it normally does. Since diablos hardly flies because of its heavier structure, it would be hard for it to get around as easily as rathalos, and other flying wyverns. It's large, wing structure also gets in the way when trying to traverse this pretty very rocky area. The only reason deviljho can easily traverse the area as well as many others is because they lack any features that would snag against walls or plantation, and a very strong, well developed leg and torso structure that can take a beating from accidents that might happen on any terrain.

As for uragaan, there are veins of minerals in moga woods, but alot of them don't seem to be within reach of uragaan as most of them are found in small, compact caves or underwater. However, there is a possibility that uragaan may not stay within the volcano all the time. I think I remember reading somewhere that young uragaan do actually start off with a vegetarian diet and as they grow they start to eat rocks and stuff until they exclusively eat ore, or something like that. The new volcano may not be too far from moga island, seeing how it's right on the coast. And since other creature populations that are restricted to land seem to migrate to moga woods regularly, suggests that just because it's an island, doesn't mean that there is a land bridge somewhere connecting moga island to a mainland continent. Rather than migrating there however, it is possible that uragaan may venture off into the woods, away from the volcano, to lay its eggs where they'll be safe from the unstable environment of the volcano and the populations of possible predators such as uroktor, agnaktor (I know agnaktor are just mature uroktor, but still), black tigrex, stygian zinogre, and bracchidios. The young will also be safe from other adult uragaan that barge around and smash anything in the volcano. So when the female uragaan goes off into the woods to lay its eggs, one or two may end up wandering into moga woods.

As for barroth, I'd say it's not entirely unfeasable that a couple of barroth may wander away from the desert and into moga woods every now and again. Barroth's main diet is conformed of just alteroth, which can be found almost everywhere. Perhaps, when there seems to be a lack of alteroth nests in the sandy plains (after having smashed a bunch of them), they may wander off into the woods looking for more altaroth nests while the altaroth in the plains rebuild their nests. This could have also lead to the evolution of the subspecies found in the tundra. Perhaps the barroth that we know is merely a subspecies of a more widly spread population of barroth that is now extinct. The more stable populations of barroth that remain seem to fancy wearing their environment, probably because it provides more protection as it makes it harder for larger predators to get a good grip on them, allowing them much more means of escape rather than not wearing any coat at all. Mud sticks to them and so does ice, so the barroth stayed in the places that provided mud and ice. There doesn't seem to be anything that could stick to barroth in moga woods, so they probably just avoid going there. Maybe when you see a barroth in moga woods, you're just looking at one of the few individuals that are just curious or got lost when they went exploring, such as how their ancestors might have.

All that said, diablos isn't built at all to survive anywhere other than the desert, let alone moga woods, uragaan may go there for the purpose of laying eggs, and barroth is just silly enough to wander into moga woods chasing oversized ants. I heard someone mention gravios in the swamp, and I was thinking about it, but I'd rather start a few new theories regarding that on a seperate post.