User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter Frontier Season Forward 4/@comment-184.38.85.33-20120928084851/@comment-74.202.184.103-20121017191540

I hate to respond to something made just about 20 days ago, especially for something that doesn't seem to be very important, but I don't recall there being any information anywhere telling us that the coloration of azure rathalos and pink rathian are related to mating season. As far as I know, female diablos, hypnoc, and male lavasioth are the only monsters that change color specifically for breeding purposes, according to any given information (I may have overlooked something). As far as rathalos and rathian go, there's more evidence of the azure and pink variances just being a subspecies. Even the quest "Mating Season" features normal raths in the quest, showing that even though the creatures are ready to breed, such drastic changes in color are not present. The only evidence that I can see, is that you never see pink rathian or an azure rathalos in the same quest with their normal counterparts, and that can't be considered real evidence because they could just prefer to avoid each other completely for things such as territory. Where did you get this idea that the raths change color for mating purposes. Is there information somewhere that I overlooked, or was it just the common and somewhat lazy hypothesis that if it's a different color it's, probably mating season? Oh, and sorry for making such a long post. I couldn't help myself.