User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-21378804-20130924140459/@comment-21371438-20130924201715

it's not "suicidal", they attack the boat because it represent a threath to them (canonically, Jhen mohran was said to appear in the great desert, so, basically it's YOU throwing yourself at him for richness/fortune)

and indeed, wrestling like those sea elephants

we should actually know what is Daren's purpose... as Dax said it's ulikely they would hurt eachother, they likely would if Daren was a Jhen Mohran predator, but without info we have nothing