Talk:Master Ceadeus 27 Rathian and Rathalos Subs Theory/@comment-4212769-20140626100123/@comment-4212769-20140706100858

I didn't say yours can't be right, but yours a mutation of sorts so it would fit in with the official statement of them being mutations. And I said mutations can be right.

Changing habitat and getting a new coloration because of it is a mutation, And that doesn't happen just because it moves but that it moves and adapts to the new environment. Moving and then just changing color is something that couldn't really happen because adaptation takes time. A new environment it lives in cannot just alter the genom of a monster like nothing or just give a impulse for a hormone to be sent out, it has to be adaptation and that leads to a subspecies rather than an older individual. And this game is supposed to be based on Earth logic, even if there're some obvious exceptions like the Elder Dragons. And I wouldn't call Alatreon a good indicator for logic in MH world... same goes for Jhen Mohran as it defies logic by moving forward without any swimming movement. Swimming in sand can be possible though actually there are some animals that seem to do that although they don't do it in a narrower sense. I think it needs a lot more muscular strength to achieve this but it may be possible. And Jhen Mohran doesn't eat sand but filters living monsters out of the sand similar to what baleen whale in water. And being that long and tusked isn't any impossible thing in MH, in our world the length may be a problem but a narwhal has a tusk as well even if it can't use it like Jhen Mohran does but that doesn't matter.

Little update about all young Rathalos are red: Only because they are red in the Ecology video in one family, doesn't mean all young Rathalos are red.

The age theory can be right though without a mutation. But it just misses a reason why it turns to such a vibrant coloration when older. Just to scare off competitors seems too easy for that.

And I didn't say my theory is correct but that it is possible that it may be.