User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-217.129.17.186-20121204200248/@comment-1758220-20121205022650

Let's be honest with ourselves though, Capcom has no answer for this. It's completely intended to just be a 4th Rathian subspecies, and as far as they're concerned there's no reason why they should make it realistic at all. it's just a challenging, cool-looking variant of the monster that they put very little background thought into other than "It needs to look cool and perform different attacks." In this thread alone we have given this many, many times more thought and consideration than Capcom ever did, so to try and make sense of such obvious apathy creates a self-perpetuating cycle of X vs Y, when neither one holds any merit because the makers of the game put no thought into the monster outside of the context of gameplay.

The end.