Bird wyvern ecology : Pukei Pukei in Monster Hunter 

A behavior that wasn’t mentioned in this vid is Pukei’s apparent knack for “bullying” monsters smaller than it, and I believe that this may be a direct result of being ousted by Rathalos. Being forced to feed on the forest floor puts Pukei in direct contact with other ground foragers like Mosswine, Kestodon, and the occasional passing herd of aptonoth. Although Pukei still has access to fruits and nuts higher than these other monsters could feasibly access, the forced proximity with them makes Pukei ultra-protective of these food sources and so hyper-aggressive towards other herbivores that it previously had little to no contact with.

as someone who is deeply interested in biology but bad at researching on my own this series is great. I'm barely a monster hunter fan, but the speculative ecology is just so neat edit: do be huntin now, nergigante is a bitch

My favorite monster in the series, hands down. 1. He's adorable. 2. He's colorful. 3. He's comical. 4. He's important. 5. He's also very loyal (as we saw in that The Witcher crossover event).

I genuinely thought Pukei-Pukei was a flying wyvern before this video. I feel silly.

When I clicked on this video, I expected a discussion about Pukei-Pukei’s diet, how it incorporates said diet into its primary defense mechanism, and its subsequent importance as a distributor of seeds. I did indeed get a mention of that, but also an in-depth description and hypothesized history of one of the most fascinating behaviors in the avian order. Very well-made video on one of the most charming monsters in the series! I’ve never seen Primeval, but I’ve heard good things about it and I’m looking forward to your analysis on one or more of its original creature designs!

A potential origin of Pukei-Pukei's brood parasitism may specifically be another bird wyvern that it shares its habitat with: Kulu-Ya-Ku. Kulu's egg-based diet likely makes nesting challenging for the many egg-laying animals it shares its habitat with, so intra-species brood parasitism may have been a way to prevent Kulu's nest raiding from destroying an entire clutch. Eventually, this likely expanded to inter-species brood parasitism, Pukei potentially even experimenting with brood parasitising Kulu, since Kulu is unlikely to dine on its own nest (however, Kulu's relatively high intelligence may caused this to only be successful briefly, if at all). A thicker egg shell may have also initially been selected for because Kulu would prioritize breaking eggs with more fragile shells. Mernos may have eventually been settled on because its nests are likely high in the canopy, places where Kulu-Ya-Ku cannot readily reach. This may have also led to the speed-laying practice, since Mernos nests may often be on branches or other structures that a Pukei can't safely land on because of its size.

It’s interesting how Rathalos took over the Ancient Forest, throwing Anjanath off its throne and evicting Pukei Pukei from the tree tops, by also (I assume) devouring smaller predators by the looks of it, as always you did an amazing work with this video :D I’m curious of why some large flying Wyverns such as Legiana and Nargacuga have predilection for small prey, specially Legiana when it’s on the HoarFrost Reach, where it feeds upon Anteka and Kortos rather than Popo

Late reply I know, but I was thinking, what if Pukei-pukei uses its tail as an ovipositor that allows it (or rather her) to reach nests hidden in thick foliage and outside the range of its massive body? The tail definately seems elastic enough to allow the passage of an egg given how it inflates with some of its attacks. The relation with the cave wyverns adds on to this, as Gigginox also lays eggsacks from the tail, so it could be an ancestral common trait.

Aye man so glad we did this together, never done this before! Happy to contribute to an upcoming RU-vidr, and hope to do more stuff like this again in the future. It was a fun discussion to use Pukei-Pukei being possibly the closest relatives to the cave wyverns, which I think it a very plausible hypothesis overall. Awesome video my guy!

I couldn't play world because of hardware so its design always caught my eyes , I'm really fond of the color scheme and chameleon inspirations and overall cutness of it . A bit sad that the fight is not that interesting tho

I've always been intrigued with pukei pukei his design was always so interesting to me plus his fight was kind of fun to me and liked the archer atheistic his armour set had. one thing I'd like to point out is that pukei pukei can be found in very humid desert environments and according to worlds story this was a new behaviour. maybe pukei pukei have begun to move to more arid areas to escape rathalos incursion. their prefered nest animals mernos are found in the wildspire and their common predators like anjanath and rathalos don't frequent arid area's.

I like to think that Zinorge,Magnamlo, Odogaron and the other fanged wyvern are synapsides. sorry for any grammar issues.

While Rathalos won't attack Mernos, I do think it's worth mentioning that Pink Rathian will hunt wingdrakes so it's interesting to think how that might influence Coral Pukei

Won't lie, with World being my first Monster Hunter game, Pukei grew to be one of my favorites, enjoyable fight, good weapons and armor, and he's a goofy little guy

Get this man to 100k subs fellow hunters, he deserves it

Someone has probably already said it (this video being ten months old) but the part where you mention attaching human morality to nature had me imagining Yian Garuga being top tier parents by human standards.

Okay I know I keep saying this but this was a really really impresive one. I didnt expect much but man did I learn things I didnt expect. Birds living under the rullership of mafia brood parasites,how a single species can massively affect an enviroment with the jays planting half a forest and ofcourse parts of Pukei himself. It been so vital to the forest with the distribution of seeds and helping it grow while Rathalos hunting them results in medows and the costal plains forming,that get replanted by Pukies spreading seeds is a really intrestic back and forth,tho I do wander if the very northen west side of the map that looks to have more rivers if the land there is more rainforest/marshy due to Rathalos not been that present there.But then again the large "sandy beaches" that seem to be on the map might more costal plains as Rathalos make their way up the coast changing the enviroment or it could be something completly difrent Im not sure. As for Pukie I do smile when I think back to him,his colourful,he has a neat early game fight, I got one in MH Stories 2 called Queves and I love him and he got me though some tough fights,Coral Pukie really hits some spots in me cause I find the pink,violet and orange green eyed combo asthetic,tho I strugle with the fight at times. Looking forward to the next one,and Im take a guess and say that Spectral bats will be brought up in that video since they seem to me as the closest we got to the subject of the video. Oh and Adriens cladogram and species names look and sound apsolutly stelar.

It's funny that this came back up in my recommended feed not a week after we got a trailer for Wilds that has what looks to be a baby Pyukei-Pyukei in it

This series is one of my favourite things on RU-vid. I would suggest an ecology video on Rajang!

Honestly, world has some of best new designs. From what I remember, I really like every single new monster that was added. They're all just super cool and thought out.

Pukei-Pukei is pretty cool, really liked this wyvern design. It’s quite exceptionally unique, and was pretty fun to hunt in world. Also the poison spewing tail kinda reminded me somewhat of the lost planet 2 category G gordiant Boss’s tail, sorta. Also your Analysis on the ecology of these wyverns, dragons, and other creatures from monster hunter world and so forth is always really awesome and super cool to see explored just the level of data and info that is brought to the table still is mind boggling to me, but for sure really darn awesome stuff. And the seeing the preview from your upcoming video is really dope, can’t wait to see that. I still need to watch primeval.

I found your channel recently and have been binging it like mad it's excellent! I've always wanted to see someone tackle how these fantastical creatures can realistically exist through a scientific lens and you do it wonderfully. I'm looking forward to whatever you decide to put out but if I could suggest one I'd personally love to see you try and cover monsters that participate in mutualism such as zinogre; if you're able to find enough to talk about to justify a full video. Keep up the great work!

Pukei Pukei is one of my favorite monster from MHW just for his design perhaps the presence of the rathalos didn’t hinder the pukei in the dispersion of the seeds, but only changed its dispersion mode, from a flyng dispersion like a macaw to a terrestrial dispersion like a cassowary. Also, considering that it is said that Pukei fight back only with monster smaller than himself conferm its evictor behavier. And maybe the reason he nedds to use others nest for his eggs and baby its because Tobi-Kadachi is a small creature hunter, and without the protection of the mernos nest, or even a colony, a baby pukei has less chance to survive

I have never learned so much about real life animals in a RU-vid video before. Your content is phenomenal!

10:00 I think that Paolumu and it’s subspecies would be related to the ancestor of the cave wyverns and the Pukeis since they share the same body play minus the head and tail.

It should be noted that even if Mernos are intelligent enough to be highly trainable, it doesn't mean that protects them from Pukei Pukei. Studies have shown that a majority of birds can recognize a foreign egg in their nest, however many simply do not care because they lack an instinctive response. Very few birds are entirely capable of routing their brood parasites through their own behavior, as while some have a response to foreign eggs and others have responses to parasitic chicks, very few have responses to both. Reed Warblers are very good at detecting Cuckoo eggs, but lack a defensive response to an aberrant chick in their nest, so if a Cuckoo's egg can match the Reed Warbler's it is in the clear. On the flip side Fairy Wrens do not reject foreign eggs but will abandon nests if they find a parasitic chick, recognizing that it isn't their own because it doesn't make the right call. Between both of these Pukei Pukei may get away with various hosts as their hosts might not have a response at all or at the very least lack one of the important responses needed to reject Pukei Pukei's parasitic brood.

Another thing that can be interesting to consider is that Pukui probably could have acted as a sphere of fear against nest raiders that targeted the wingdrakes because they had to keep watch and ensure that the wingdrakes took care of the young pukui if they did act like that. Which would aid the entire nesting site of the wingdrakes because it reduces the energy needed to protect the young and increase the chances of the young surviving especially in those that aren’t harbouring the pukui egg/s and it may also explain why pukui is so damn aggressive against smaller critters. It is to instil fear of the pukui so that the potential nest predators of the wingdrakes would leave the nests alone especially since that also increases the chances of the pukui babies surviving to the point where they leave the nest. But maybe when Rathalos came that added another bad side effect to the wingdrake colonies, the raths may use them as hunting practice for the young, especially when one considers how many top predators need to practice and learn from their parents on how to hunt. Maybe that isn’t the cause with raths but if it is, then raths would target areas with relatively good size wingdrake colonies as areas for their young to come to for hunting practice which may actually lead the wingdrakes prefer going to pukuis or areas where pukui like to live in and raths don’t. Because it is better to lose one or two eggs or clutchs in a lifetime then to have it cut short but a nest of apex predators. While raths wouldn’t pillage the nests as a whole, given the danger of leaving eggs near wingdrakes, they probably don’t like that close to the wingdrakes as well and only really being their young or the wingdrakes to or from the nest for the teaching or their young naturally gravitate to these areas of relatively easy hunting. Which also leaves the colony more vulnerable to predators that don’t care about raths especially nocturnal predators after some baby raths destroy a good portion of the nests leading predators to the spoils and the rest of them. It’s just speculation but a nice one to consider, maybe pukui is more important to the wingdrakes than just a nuisance in the firm of a brood parasite, maybe they act like a double edge sword, one with a small edge and a large edge.

As always, great video! Love these things.

2:34 this channel is a Gold Mine. I really love this comparetively subtle injection of humor.

I love the scientific light you shine on the monsters really makes them so much more Interesting as is something I wish the franchise would focus on more rather then slowly turning into a pure action game

Oh my, can't wait to see the FUTURE episode.

Fantastic video as usual, really learned alot about brood parasitism that I had no idea about. I haven't had as many of my own ideas and speculations and Discord isn't really my thing but I'm still watching, favoriting and liking every video. Very much looking forwards to the Primeval theme next week aswell. Can't wait.

Keep it up! And thanks for mentioning my theory on Dragon energy and how it's plant stuff.

Absolutely love this monster and I think structurally this is one of your best videos yet, a really great story is told here starting from the brood parasitism and seed dispersal to the invasive Rathalos and its effects on the Ancient Forest, really loved the whole thing. Couple of thoughts, why do you think Pukei travel to the Wildspire Wastes considering just how far it is from the tree tops and forests they are typically associated with? Is this a response with them increasing their range to avoid Rathalos given their absence there? I think it's also interesting to note that the forested areas of the Wildspire also contain Mernos, so it could be they are following the host species for their eggs, and Mernos nests in the Wildspire, if there are any, may be safer for them to raid. And with that, what do you feel about Pukei's inclusion in the Sandy Plains and Flooded Forest in Rise? Does its brood parasitism carry over to the Remobras in those regions as well, or do you think that the Rise team didn't think that out enough? The comment on Pukei's potential relation to Gigginox and Khezu is actually one I've considered before, and to add on to that, I've considered the possibility of Gypceros being within the clade, or at least being sister to it, given its use of poison like Gigginox and Pukei, and its elastic tail being similar to those of the cave wyverns, albeit lacking an opening at the end. Really great stuff over all, and very much looking forward to the Primeval episode!

This video is poggei-poggei PS. I like the idea of more pukei subspecies, I'm drawing that later

hi I have only recently discovered this wonderful channel, the way in which creatures are analyzed both in a biological and evolutionary sense is spectacular. since the monster analyzed in the video is the Pukei Pukeo, it comes naturally to me to wonder if those faced in MHRise are actually native specimens of the old world, if they emigrated from the new world or if they are victims of poaching as indicated in the MHW guide book; personally I believe that the most probable option is the migration due to the events of Iceborne, this would also explain the presence of the other creatures originating from the new world (exceptional made for the Jhuratodos which in my opinion with Rise confirms its presence in the old world from times immemorial) which coincidentally are almost all of the ancient forest, being that the Pukei is essential for the rapid regrowth of the forest a massive migration could have heavily altered the ecological status of the forest and environments rich in dense vegetation, main habitat of both the Jagras and the Toby may have shrunk to such an extent as to push the species to migrate in search of new territories, obviously the main predator Anjanath of both the Jagras and the Toby following them closely; as for the Kulu Yaku I think that simply the ecological catastrophe that occurred during Iceborne could have reduced the reproduction of herbivores and therefore forced the Kulu to look for new food sources.

I'm very enthralled by your thorough research and dedication to finding (possibly peer-reviewed?) papers that build on your points; A lot of fictional biologists tend to just make fleeting connections to real world biology and usually don't try to back up their claims, under the pretense that "it's all fictional anyway". While that may be true, it's refreshing to see that there are folks who are willing to take the extra work to make sure their points stand on more than just flimsy legs. Also, to be honest, I'm alsol waiting for that "LIKE YEAST--" punchline on one of your videos at some point, after that Gangster's Paradise joke.

I would imagine it would use the Rathalos to perform it's brood parasitism, as it bares striking resemblance to it. But then again, the Rathalos is very formidable, and it would be a chore and a half for the Pukei Pukei to get to the Rathalos nest.

I love your channel, though I don't often comment! Pukei is actually one of my favorite monsters, as I find it charming and because I play Monster Hunter's fashion game for style more often than function Pukei's gear is one of my favorites. I'm a female player with a dislike for many of the "sexier" armor designs, and I'm also a more casual player than I feel many hunters are. ;P Pukei is just right for me: a fun design and engaging fight, but not notably difficult (I do like MH's harder fights, but it's nice to chill as well.) I actually like Aknosom for the same reason; cool gear that doesn't show off too much skin and fun, well-made combat. Thanks for this video, I learn a lot about real world ecology from you and it's so much fun to tie it into my favorite games! ^^

Super excited to see Primeval looked at!!! It was a great show and I need to find it again so I can watch it. Also, great video. It’s nice to see some ecological stuff that actually makes sense being actually mentioned in the games. I’m a noob to MH so I don’t know how prevalent stuff like Pukei’s relevance on the environment is, but I agree that it would be cool to see more stuff like that in the actual game (I would love a cutscene where you get to see a baby Pukei hatch in a mermos nest)

Pukei being a seed disperser made me think of parrots, and sure enough, you drew the comparison to real world birds doing the same thing. In fact, fruits being colorful is probably for this exact purpose - so that birds will eat the fruit and disperse the seed elsewhere.

I hope you'll cover Tigrex soon, he strikes me as a very Smilodon (or I guess Tiger works too) niched type predator that can bring down big animals. Also its descriptions of being descended from sauropods is a little shocking. The guy's like a reverse Therizinosaur.

Looking forward for more great videos!

This was very interesting to watch. I like the concept that Pukei Pukei lays his eggs on Wing Drake nests. It really adds another layer to this monster. Although I’d like to think that Pukei Pukei could also still practice these methods a lot on the Wildspire Wastes with Noios and Mernos. I think it’s even plausible to think it could also do the same on Nightshade, if the Paolumu species lays eggs that is. Rathian shouldn’t be too much of a problem because they’re not as aerial as Rathalos or Legiana. Also looking forward to the Future Predator video. I love the Primeval show so much. It’s a shame it got canceled, but I’m sure it lives on with so many fans. I’m curious to see what you’ve got in store for the Future Predator next week.

I always found Pukei Pukei to be a unique flying Wyvern. It’s nice to see a video that talks about it

I wonder if Pukei could use its prehensile tung to gently and stealthily place its eggs into Mernos nests

If the baby we saw in the trailer really was a Pukei-Pukei, hopefully they keep the brood parasitism

I appreciate your work

Once again awesome my friend!

Yet another awesome video! Could you do a video on the 3 piscine wyverns aswell? Jyura,lava and beo? I feel like they need some love too. Especially jyura since hes not a bad fight at all anymore even tho some people say so.

Pukei pukei is actually one of my favourite monsters (I've only played base world). I love it's unique design, as well as the fact that it's herbivorous. We don't hunt that many herbivorous monsters in the game, we just look at them from afar. And it's gear is also pretty good for early game

the eye lick behavior is probably something to do with keeping its eyes clean, the way geckos do

Pukei is one of my favourites, maybe World was my first MonHun, but also because I absolutely *LOVE* their gear :D It has such a Ranger vibe to it which I'm a HUGE sucker for xD

have you thought about doing a video based off of “the wildlife of star wars” it’s a fantastic field guide even if you don’t know or like the series. I remember reading it for hours back in the day. It would be interesting to hear your take on the ecology of all the crazy animals

Hey, this is rather late, but I just got into your videos and couldn’t help but wonder, maybe Rathalos pushed Pukei-Pukei out of its treetop habitat because of their brood parasitism? You pointed out that brood parasites can have multiple hosts, so maybe Pukei-Pukei tried to take advantage when the Raths first appeared by parasitizing their nests. However, this would backfire because the Raths are not only intelligent enough to know the egg isn’t theirs, but they’re also notoriously protective of their eggs and chicks. This combination would lead to attacking Pukei-Pukei on sight to prevent them from parasitizing and eventually driving them off

You have to make a video of tigrex and his infinite versions

The line "by forming an Avian mafia" goes hard as hell

Kinda hilarious to think a Pukei would just BLAST its egg into its target's nest and run XD

Pukei is one of my favorite monsters, and is probably my favorite low tier. He's just a fun fight and his sword took me through half the game

How big a fan are you of Pokemon? 2:15-2:35 has me thinking of Murkrow and Honchkrow, two mafia-themed corvid Pokemon with a henchman and don relationship. Not sure if crows/ravens exhibit any type of brood parasite behavior, but Murkrow learns Prankster as an ability, which fits the idea of them fooling other birds into raising their offspring. Keep up the great work on the channel, I'm eating this content up!

i like how the Witcher Tie in had a friendly Pukei Pukei

I absolutely love him and he is perfect in my opinion

Something I'd love to see in Monster Hunter would go very well with you wanting to observe brood parasitism from Pukei Pukei. I think it'd be neat if for certain quests you'd need to scout out and bring a researcher a specific monster's egg, and for Pukei Pukei you'd have to track one down and watch it invade the nest and then take the egg after it's laid. Maybe if you wait to long you'd see the Pukei Pukei hatch and have to start the quest over. The reason for the research quest idea is very Monster Hunter Stories inspired, I think it'd be neat if they're gathering eggs to have them imprint on the researcher in an effort to tame them. Pukei Pukei has demonstrated loyalty in the Witcher subquest, I think maybe that behavior could lead to researchers wanting to tame them into sort of guard dogs. It's wishful thinking, I find Pukei Pukei very cute and would love to give them some special relevance to the series.

Pukei is my third fave monster from World (World being my first game). his colours and behavior is just so flavorful. and, being new to the game series, trying to figure out how to fight a poison spewing bird was a fun challenge. on my first playthrough, i quite enjoyyed his weapon and armor sets. i found poison to be very helpful first time round, when learning the dos and donts of each monster. Tobi is my second fave. a sleek feline, that has quills like a porcupine? and electricity? awesome only monster that beats them out, in Anjananth. simply because, cmon, its a fire breathing TRex with an anger management problem. who doesnt love that?

Headcanon: Pukei-Pukei's tail isn't a tail at all. It's an extended rectum.

Pukei is my favorite monster because of the one I had in MH Stories 2, he was on my team from almost the start

See I thought rathalos was an invasive species. I didn't think he showed up about 3,000 years earlier.

After going over monsters from the Wild Spire Waste and Ancient Forest, I'm curious as to how you would approach monsters like Vaal-Hazak in the Rotten Vale or Legiana in the Coral Highlands.

Personally really liked them. The first weapon I crafted was a Pukei Horn it's alsot the first I maxed out. I like these silly critters And it was one of the ones that stood out to me personally

I think Paolumu also slots somewhere in Pukeis Family. Although its tail isn't as specialized, it shares a similar body type, with remarkably similar looking Wings, and the Airsacks in their necks might be related to Pukeis seemingly inflatable Tongue. Also, Paolumus too eat Eggs

something that came to mind was that maybe the coral pukei pukei evolved was due to the raths driving the pukeis out of the ancient forest. With the coral highlands being the second best habitable areas and a viable population of possible hosts, over the generations they adapted to the environment and became what they are now. Another thing i noticed was that palamu (the balloon bat monster) looks similar to pukie, sure the head and tail are off but a majority of the features are similar. What if they are related, very distantly at least (if a leech monster can be related to a lizard monster why not a bat?) Otherwise this would be a very interesting form of convergent evolution.

He has returned!

Excellent vid yet again!

Another great video! I have plans for making a video dedicated to the evolution of every monster in the mainline series. Doing this has led to some interesting theories of my of the monsters we all thought we knew. He are some of these theories... 1. Yian Kut-Ku and Yian Garuga arn't bird wyverns they're flying wyverns ( how can two species of canonically two different clades have off spring?) 2. wyverians are likely descendants of the same group that contains Rajang, Blangonga and Congalala. 3. Temnocerians aren't spiders they are a highly derived group of Neuropterans ( Alta-ka being a Neuropteran also produces silk and has six limbs 2 of which are it's arms) As it stands there are more ideas I have and new ones that are coming to me as I do this messy taxonomy of Monster Hunter but overall I love what I'm doing!

I never knew about the brood-parasitism of Pukei-Pukei, which is rlly interesting. But it does make me wonder several things. Since Pukei is in rise and lives in the Shrine ruins and Sandy plains what species does it use for breeding? Remobra are the only seemingly colonial nesting flying animals in the shrine ruins. So does it use terrestrial bird wyverns like Jaggi, Izuchi or Wroggi? They seem unlikely to me since they are very social animals. What’s your take on this? Also great video as always :)

Pukei is one of my favorite monsters. Not for fight but for how fantastically goofy he looks. I love him. I would love to have one (a very small one) as a pet (as long as they stayed small) One of the things that world did that really doesn't get enough credit was putting all its graphical oomph to use. Monsters are better defined, have more coloring, they aren't smears of texturing. Yeah sure, you had colorful monsters in the past but they were far less visually dynamic.

Everybody gangsta til the bird mafia rolls up

Pukei-Pukei is 1.) Very fun to look at and 2.) An absolute beast for the early game in Stories 2. Isabelle carried my team through the first three zones almost single handed. I am very much a fan of the goofy chameleon bird. Not so much a fan of fighting it, though.

Pukei is my favourite monster :D

Pukei is related to other true bird wyverns and appears to be rather new amongst other species. The closest monster to it is actually Quru.

My personal theory on Rathalos invading the Ancient Forest is that it caused Coral Pukei to emerge. As it used to live in the canopy, some Pukei would likely have made their nests close to or even on the the mountain range between the Ancient Forest and Coral Highlands. When Rathalos attacked, this group panicked and fled to the Coral Highlands by accident, and decided to stay after discovering the lack of threats other than Legiana, which is only there part of the year, and easy food access. Over time, this group of Pukei Pukei would have changed colors due to the pigments in the coral polyps. Their heads were already well suited for drinking water from the sponges, and as they couldn’t get any poison, their poison sack and its related organs would have changed to be better suited for storing and weaponizing water. They also would have changed to parasitizing Raphinos, which would be less likely to prevent them from doing this. Thus, Coral Pukei was born.

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What's interesting is that in Japanese the khezu and pukei pukei have the same banking scheme. Puke puke and furu furu implying they have a shared ancestor.

I just absolutely refuse the pukei being a bird wyvern when it shares the exact same body shape as paolumu The flying mushroom eating frog and the airbag rodent have to be extremely closely related

The problem with Pukei Pukei is that they fit in so damn well that they're too easy to forget I look upon it, and I think "yep, that's a monster hunter"

Pukei pukei: you took everything from me! Rathalos: I don't even know who you are.

While I'm unsure about the canon of the Witcher Event Quest. But as Geralt, you can save a pukei pukei and it becomes bonded to Geralt. Taking the active risk of aiding the Witcher in attacking the invasive Leshen. And after getting rid of the threat the pukei sticks around and allows Geralt to pet it. I'm curious if that at all has a biological and or animal psychological explanation for such behaviors or should I just chuck it up to Capcom giving the bird wyvern some extra love and screentime.

Like all wyverns might be a bit confusing with a few different ideas of the was was the stem in the evolution for many wyverns alike. There was talks about Origin Wyverns being the ancestor of all wyverns, claims of Wyvern Rex being the ancestor of all flying wyverns, and that of there being a shelled Lizard. Judging by all your videos, you seem to say that most of the flying wyverns came from wingdrake. Any ideas as to why and a better way clear this all up? Again this can be speculation.

one would think raptor would actually encourage smaller birds like humming birds to nest near them as it provides bait for more desperate predators to go after the smaller birds and by extension provide food for the raptors.

I love that bird

I know this video is about pukie pukie but i hope you do a yian garuga video. I want to know why and how he exist cause it flips flops between rathian and kut ku making one. or them just being a close and more aggressive relative of kut ku. and how he’s able to fight monsters that outclass him like deviljho.

Pukei pukei is very smart, in the keeping pukei pukei alive ceding of pukei pukei in peril, it gives Geralt a gift

Avian mafias are my new favorite things!

2:28 I'm proud of you. You Did good

If i remember correctly. Pukei and Khezo can´t be related to Gigi. Gigi shares the sceleton with Barioth/Nargacuga/Tigrex. So Gigi (should be) evolved from a pseudo wyvern that wandered in a cave and get adapted to the live there. Other than that: Awesome video(s)!

Can you share a link to those cladograms you mentioned ?

The creators of Monster Hunter could have done research in nature to compare behaviours of living and extinct animals it’s cool that way like in some speculative evolution.

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"pukey pukey" or "Poo-kay Poo-kay"

Ah, the Slapstick