User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Ecological Info/@comment-21371438-20140916095353/@comment-25119729-20140917144609

@ ArcEarth

Funny thing is Real Life Animals and even Zombies have been more or less confirmed through the Pokemon Manga and Anime.

To the Rathalos thing: like Democide said, it would be pretty poor for the developers to say, "Fuck it, the old versions of monsters simply can't do the same things as the newer versions because we didn't think of it at the time. You got us!", and not try to come up with are lore-wise explenation. It could be explained that thorugh different envoirements, the different versions had to develop new strategies to survive, like the MH4 and 4U versions having to think in multiple "plains" to survive (the new A.I. moves of climbing areas). Thus it can be called a subspecies because the descendents of these individuals will know how to climb and other individuals of the same species in other regions won't.