User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-5460283-20121201174351/@comment-1758220-20121203021530

To be fair, didn't the game once "make it perfectly clear" that Giaprey were White Velociprey? And then they turned out to be a totally different species. Honestly this theory is intriguing, and I'd be more inclined to accept it than to suppose that it's a subspecies of Rathian.