User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-74.193.210.169-20120703025110/@comment-4212769-20120719203532

Ashen Lao Shan Lungs are just Lao Shan Lungs that lived/wandered through the Volcano Belt while the red ones that lived/wandered in the nearness of the city with the Fort where is much iron ore have a reddish color. It has completely nothing to do with the age.

Lao Shan Lungs are wanderers what explains why they come to the fortress. It is just in the way of the normal route. But that doesn't explain why they walk so fast like it's always said (don't know if it is explained that way in the game...). Either it's bull or it's a Fatalis like in the stories. Fatalis surely could take down a Lao Shan Lung, no question but when they are legends not known to exist how can villagers be sure it is when they didn't see it and don't know if there really is one out there?

About the Lao-Shan-Lungs-that-are-fought-are-only-babies/children-theory I can only say that it's said that they get as big as (and even are the) whole mountains and massifs. That small Lao Shan Lungs can't be compared with the size of mountains or massifs. Either it's a myth or they are really babies/children.