User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-1011548-20110929160632

Raviente benchmark, as Mckrongs said, basically doubles as its ecology video. And I love it. What does it tell us, though? No, you know what, I'm just going to keep thinking to myself that he does secretly spend most of the time underwater, and he comes onto land just to chill out. Or mate or something. Scary thought.
 * Geyser Island was once a happy, lush, tropical place. However, some of the 'Quest Loading' screens in Frontier show that it's miles away from anywhere, in the middle of ocean. How did Congalala, Velociprey, Aptonoth, end up there?
 * I'm guessing Geyser Island was destroyed because it was essentially an active volcano (hence the crater-esque shape of the island from above). I can't see any way that one Raviente could be responsible for a volcano erupting.
 * Is it the same individual Raviente throughout the whole video? I thought that was implied, but it means we'd have to come up with some theory for how it changed colour to white. Failing that, another Raviente came along and 'dealt with' the first?
 * The population of Ravi/White Ravi has got to be tiny, there's not enough biomass in the entire world to support a very big population.
 * The one thing that bugged me about the video was that it kinda contradicted my own theory about Raviente - that we fight him at a disadvantage on land because he mainly lives in the water. Think about it; he's quite streamlined, he lives on an island where there is literally no food at all for him on land, water would be great for supporting his huge bulk, water is great for supporting the huge bulk of things big enough for him to eat, his attacks would reduce everything to a smear on land, his fireball would turn most monsters into a charcoaly mess on land, but boil them nicely underwater.

Thoughts, anyone?