User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-74.193.210.169-20120615145958/@comment-4775842-20120616201742

Someone is wrong here about something. It's plausible a tigrex could kill a kirin, but they didn't get as evolved as they did by becoming prey. Kirin are agile, and are probably more alert to their surroundings than most common herbivores (kirin is an herbivore, no questions). Plus, tigrex is weak to thunder. This may explain how kirin developed it's electrical aura in the first place. By exploiting tigrex's weakness, it knocked one more predator out of the running. Plus, thunder bolts can be used to defend against almost anything (we all know this). So in it's attempt to just defend itself against one predator, it created a defense against all of them. Except of course the Rajang, which is a predatory thunder element pelagus. Akantor eating a kirin isn't plausible either, because (though I haven't fought it yet in MHF2) akantor is too slow to catch up to something as fast as a kirin. Besides, kirin don't usually go to the volcano in the first place, meaning they aren't a part of the regular food web.