User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-5460283-20130102043847/@comment-4212769-20130104120235

@Dax: Like I portrayed in my example the only monsters known that could pose a threat to a Baby Ceadeus or Ceadeus itself besides individuals of another species are the Lagiacrus subspecies, normal Lagiacrus and Lagiacrus Subspecies for the baby, Lagiacrus Rare Species for both. And that especially for the thunder attacks. And I don't think the beard is a very good protection for the baby even if it has a higher resistance against thunder than the rest of the body.

It would be a lot easier and safer to simply flee than to give the Ceadeus baby to such danger.

Hang on may be possible but completely hide in it would just lack sense it would be even more in danger than it would be just swimming away and hide somewhere where big predators can't reach. If the mother dies, then it won't have a big chance anyway.

Also because Joe talked about the size of the neck I guess it has a big larynx that supports its loud roars and "singing". This singing it uses to communicate with other individuals as they are loners and few. The same applies for the afterwards search for the baby after it fleed.

And yeah, the egg laying Ceadeus is done, I guess.

@Joe: I want to answer your question:

You can clearly say something is wrong without having the right answer. I said often that I don't know what it uses the beard for but your idea is just too dangerous, too unnecessarily complex and with that very unlikely and unlogical.

Ceadeus' ancestors are, like the whale's ancestors, land animals, so we can assume that Ceadeus would have evolved very similar to the whales because of the identical conditions. Well, convergent evolution.