Talk:Tiger Lanterak/@comment-25043807-20140625185505/@comment-10179027-20140803152640

These are very valid points Democide, most of which I forgot about. While I rethink the Tiger Lanterak's ecology, allow me to explain my original ideas...

1 and 2. What I really should of put is "bears close relation to the abilities of Gypceros". Since most Wyverns come from a similar evolutionary strain, what I'm attempting to convey is that it shares the same abilities as a Gypceros (e.g a related "Flash" tool, two charged points striking together), maybe by a relation in the original genetics. To be honest, you're the expert here, not me, so this part will probably be replaced.

3, 4 and 5. The links I made to Rathalos is simply a measure of size and posture-not necessarily that it shares the same sort of colouration or head crest pattern for example. I meant this to give a good ideas of the size and shape of the Tiger Lanterak and since the Rathalos is a well-known Wyvern, it works well for this idea. As with what you said about Convergent Evolution, since all Wyverns are theorised to belong to an evolutionary path from the dinosaurs, part of the trigger for maybe a "mutation" that the Gypceros had could of been carried over to the Tiger Lanterak, since they have a common origin.

Tossing all of what we said aside, the Tiger Lanterak could just simply be classed as a Wyvern anomaly or mutation, but be classed as a Flying Wyvern due to the relation is bears to others, like the Raths. After all, Kirin and Yama are classed as Elder Dragons due to the fact they don't belong anywhere else in the monster Class System.

I agree that this monster has a bizarre evolutionary path, allow me time to correct it :)