User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-2180517-20110714054023/@comment-3062343-20110714070722

I believe in one of the 1st Gen areas (Old Desert?), you can see the felyne cart in the Felyne "base camp" (area 11 if it is the Old Desert I'm thinking of). Given that Felynes are ready to cook for, fight alongside and even blow themselves up for the hunter (bomb mining is great!), it doesn't seem unlikely that they'd carry the hunter back to base camp if there's a reward in it for them. As for the hunter not getting eaten, while Lord Loss' theory makes sense, it may partially come down to the gameplay aspect. I know people complain about the games getting easier, but I think having to start over again because your character got eaten by a Rathalos is going a bit too far.