User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-4081776-20121117211234/@comment-3211692-20121118160953

Look at Kushala Daora and Melynx and tell me you don't see a difference in the style of monster. Look at Uragaan and Gobul and tell me you don't see a difference in the style of monster. Look at Yama Tsukami and Hypnocatrice and (ry

Let's not look at Rathalos or Diablos as a reference for Kechawacha because the first two are wyverns and the third is a pelagus. Like in real life, you can't really compare two completely different species and say they must be designed for different planets because they look nothing alike.

Instead, let's look at Kechawacha in relation to other pelagi. Congalala and Blangonga, since you probably don't want to look at Frontier's Gogomoa. Congalala is...some kind of pink sloth-hippo. Small eyes, huge body, big claws, long tail. Blangonga is a snow baboon, simply put. Kechawacha deviates from that by taking features from smaller monkeys like the aye-aye (huge eyes, abnormally long finger, big ears), and adding a bit of flying squirrel (membrane between the arms for flight) with a healthy orange coloration of a proboscis monkey. I know there's some kind of monkey with a trunk like Kechawacha has, but I'm not sure what the name is and I'm not finding it right now. Simply put, though, Kechawacha follows the pattern of most pelagi being a mishmash of other mammals, but in its case it takes from smaller, more agile animals instead of larger, brutish ones.