User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-5043481-20121031224426/@comment-4775842-20121110041304

This is referring to the theory mentioned in this particular discussion that Fatalis could possibly have evolved to digest rotten meat.

First off, I'm going to state the obvious, and say that rotten meat contains much less nutrition than fresh meat, and does contain poisons created as a biproduct of bacteria decomposing the meat.

However, if Fatalis were to have an extremely efficient energy production rate, or perhaps more accuartely described as metabolism, then the decrease in nutritional value in the meat could make little difference in how much energy the Fatalis recieves from said meat. Specific enzymes could also be made to break down the most common food poisonings in rotten meat. With these two things in mind, it may well be possible for Fatalis to actually hunt down a Lao Shan Lung, if perhaps not conventionally.