Fanged wyvern ecology : Great Jagras, Great Girros and Dodogama in Monster Hunter
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- Опубликовано: 9 авг 2023
- The brand of fanged wyverns known as the 'thief' or 'bandit' wyverns were some of the signature newcomers to Monster Hunter: World. Like many low ranking monsters they're full of character and ecology, so let's take a look.
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Loved your point about how Great Jagras is still a top order predator despite being easy. Not all strong animals have good defenses against humans, and especially not humans that can hold swords twice the size of their body.
Yeah , also top order carnivores can easily lose in conflicts against other top order carnivores : constrictor snakes and accipitrids birds are either too slow or too small and frail to directly fight other top order carnivores in their enviroment , yet they are still formidable predators who can hold their hown and consume large preys with some frequency
@@davidegaruti2582 What singular predators even fight off other species of predators on the regular? Some big cats, badgers and bears.
Others fighters like hyenas, lions and canines only fight in groups. Most other predators won't fight at all unless they have no other option.
So even carnivores capable of consistently killing other carnivores would rather not risk it.
@@Stroggoiialligators
Dodogama is mentioned to eat Bazelgeuse eggs because it “mistakes them for rocks.” It might not be a mistake and Dodogama might prey on anything in the rocky substrate and their diet of rocks is simply was a byproduct now turned to a convenient resource. They still probably would nab any small creature in the substrate- including eggs
The bomb beetles and blast toads!
@@jerichopz2620 exactly! Probably those gloom geckos and Vespoids (specifically their eggs) as well
@tsulaagenati2292 no the gloom gecko would possibly kill the dodogama because there poisonous very poisonous
@@magmafeline8239 Oh- I never knew that.
@@magmafeline8239Maybe their mineral-rich diet neutralizes toxins?
The jagras got me hooked on monster hunter because i had no idea what to expect and an absolute unit of an iguana runs me over from out of nowhere.
I love the yellow iguanas that are the jagras. The pack dynamic, the stretchy stomach, general design. One of my favorite world monsters.
I was called boring for liking The Great Jagras but look at it. It’s an Iguana with Dinosaur Pack tactics and the carrying abilities of a pelican. It’s not too flashy or complex but it’s a solid early game monster
@@fist-of-doom487 agreed
Same here. I personally like monsters with more subdued design, and this big lizard resonates well with me thanks to that.
@@An_Actual_Rat had no idea you watched this channel. Cool👍
But yes those are my favorite as well. Designs like anjanath, lagiacrus, the blos wyverns etc. Feel like they could fit into our world and that's why I love them.
@@Archosaur_Dominion Yeah, I'm on a bunch of animal and spec evo channels.
I do tend to comment a lot more on the Maasai and Kruger sightings channels thanks to the presence of "intellectually challenged people".
Acidic Glavenus is also quite vulnerable to paralysis like Odogaron is. And given how it was throwing around that Great Girros quite aggressively, it's possible that the Acidic Glavenus wasn't giving it any inch to flee, so the Great Girros decided to fight instead. And if the pack had bitten the big brute enough, they might well have succeeded in bringing it down.
Probably also trying not to get bit like secretary birds if you smack it from afar it won't probably get a hit in
I was thinking the same thing- namely because I got to see firsthand what happens if a Great Girros ambushes an Acidic Glavenus. They just kept chain paralyzing and knocking them down until the Greay Girros decided to leave zones, then Acidic Glavenus limped away- this happened near the start of the hunt.
Agree I honestly find the acidic glav cutscene funny cause the same glav will forget how to deal with girros. Girros is such a danger threat to the animals of the vale. I do wish the cutscene actually held true with glav actually struggling to handle the girros compared to the anime style annihilation in the cutscene
I always loved how the early game lizards had a much richer life out there in the world of ... World than many of the higher ranking monsters.
Regarding Jagras cannibalism, could it be that the Great is preying on "small morph" male Jagras that are trying to infiltrate the harem? It's not confirmed at all but the species may have different breeding strategies depending on the habitat (Rise's lack of great Jagras could suggest this, if we decide to count it as legit and not just another case of random monsters in random places), with the Ancient Forest favouring the large, food-providing males. Sneaker males would be extremely unsuccesful since no females would look at puny mate who can't bring meat back home, but may still exist to live life as a doomed failure that leads to a quicker one if the resident Great catches them.
I like this idea, of Great Jagras culling sneaky males or his sons to minimize competition. It is also possible that Great Jagras don't prey on their own packs but on packs not their own, to reduce competition and possibly reduce rival male breeding success.
As for lack of Great Jagras in Rise, it could be due to competition with the packing bird wyverns. Despite Great Jagras being the most formidable of all starter monsters, Jagras packing behaviors aren't as complex as that of the raptors and the likes of Great Izuchi and Great Wroggi would both be better at hunting available prey and would better take pressure from higher level predators.
I remember in a previous vid there was the sneaky male strat of iguanas, I imagine the greats quite literally eat puny males that step outta line, either due to the breeding competition or the risk of inbreeding or The greats genuinely can't tell the difference between small males and standard females and when discovered they're culled.
The joke in that vid of iguanas being "progressive" by animal standards might be magnified here, The Great jag may straight up intervene when seeing forced copulation and actually EAT the sneaky male.
@@thenerdbeast7375 yeah I was thinking a combination of that and lack of large prey (Flooded Forest has Slagtoth, but they don't seem to be as common as Aptonoth and with their semiaquatic lifestyle they might not be as easy to encounter). Shrine Ruins also seems to have a colder climate, which might further impact the growth of Jagras.
As a result male Jagras retain a smaller size and female-like bodyplan, and the species overall seems to form smaller social units.
@@matteolucarelli4615 colder regions typically suggest larger sizes in creatures to combat the cold. Fur helps this immensely, which is likely why Izuchi has fur instead of scales. Baggi is an outlier mainly to the fact that it is found in arctic regions, while Jagras is found in tropical regions. Baggi may also be an endothermic, while Jagras is an exotherm.
I hope we get a higher level fanged wyvern based on a basilisk lizard imagine how cool that would be
Snake wyvern
@@magmafeline8239 Wdym snake the real life basilisk is a lizard I guess a poison snake wyvern that can emit a paralysis gas could be cool for one based on the mythical basilisk
Water combat against something that can swim, go on land and run on the surface would be really cool
I was expecting you to be covering Lunagaron, but this trio are so amazing and underrated I don’t mind for a second.
Probably cause there is a distinct difference between the mammalian and lizard fanged wyverns, possibly even more distant and tied to the isolation of the continents than the psudeo wyverns and flying wyverns
He only acknowledges Rise/Sunbreak when he's forced to by his patreon.
@@StroggoiiAnd that's so based.
"With only Zinogre possibly being the aberration with having parental care." Isn't there concept art showing Lunagaron having parental care as well?
He is, I merely forgot about him
Well to be fair Zinogre and Lunagaron are highly derived Old World fanged wyverns and likely not closely related to the ones of the New World, it still appears the majority do not practice parental care. The only New World fanged wyvern I might hypothesize practicing parental care would be Odogaron (both variations) due to their hostile environments making it a necessity to ensure survival.
@@thenerdbeast7375 Zinogre and Magnamalo seem heavily derived and distantly related (if related at all- in fact, their unique talons on their forearms might be remnants of pseudo wyvern wings) but Lunagaron seems related to Odogaron (at least related to their ancestor this “Paleogaron”)
@@TsulaAngenati2292 Imo seems likely the three Old World native Fanged Wyverns make a clade with each other. They all have mammal noses, are all large, have pinnae, and are not pack hunters but show sociality or at least seem to tolerate each other outside of breeding season with Magna. (Zinogre has a harem iirc, Magna has a harem it shares territory with, Lunagaron seems to be monogamous with the concept art of it raising its cubs showing two parents.)
@@dromeoraptorpennato2931 I agree with Zinogre and Magnamalo. Lunagaron however has a body plan more similar to some new world fanged wyverns- the only exception being the nose, ears, and bipedal movement (the latter being entirely unique to it)- so they feel more like a new world fanged wyvern rather than an old world one
The thing i want to point out is that the girros are loyal to their great, as they rely on it for defence, whereas jagras arent to their great. This might be the reason the great girros continued to fight the acidic glavenus even though it was an impossible battle, as the pack is close knit and loyal to one another. The great girros might have been trying to scare off the acidic glavenus maybe because the glavenus was close to the girros' nest. Just a thought.
Girros were the one small version of monsters I adore more than the large monster form. Like I always see them picking on odo when odo is distracted by the hunter I wonder if great is the tank while the small girros are the actual killers with great girros being the one to kill larger prey items
All love for Dodogama ❤. Cute lizard he is.
Pet the chonk. :3
This is such interesting trio and hope they return for future games.
Fun fact! Dodogama was based on a collective hallucination had by the MH team
What
Come on now, ya know ya can't just drop some bullshit like that and not elaborate.
This sounds like a joke about toad licking.
A vision of God no doubt, that's right, god is a big thicc lizard
Source?
detail i love about all fanged wyverns is that they are all reptiles with some strong mammalian traits
Yup. They are technicly the monster hunter version of therapsiden or synapsiden. I realy want a herbivores fanged wyvern
@@julianswinton5355 a herbivore 1 would be cool to see, like a big cow one, or some sort of rhino
@@evodolka A giant sloth, chalicotherium or a estemmenosuchus would be my get go.
And a flagship bird wyvern would be dope to maybe akin to a terro bird or secretary bird
@@julianswinton5355 would be neat, hell if it wasn't for the questionable classifications, odds are Kirin would count as a fanged wyvern due to being a reptile shaped like a horse
think I heard birds are limited by size so odds are they would make a bird like flagship a flying or brute sadly that or just say it's the biggest bird ever
I think the gills of the girros might be just like the adaptations that the other cake dwellers bring. Vaal likely originated from the sea and girros’ could share that same origin. It’s possible they originate from shallow waters and hunted terrestrially similar the crabs you mentioned. Joining the vale’s ecosystem early on and adjusting the gills to filter out effluvium makes some sense. If they gradually adjusted from a more sea snake like appearance the reactivation of a previously selected against neurotoxin with the arrival of odogaron also lines up.
The Wildspire was likely dependant upon Lagiacrus due to the fact that the Ancient Forest was supposed to be partially flooded
I hope the sequel to World could finally reintroduce Lagiacrus in like a mangrove swamp habitat if he can't appear in the Ancient Forest, maybe do a whole invasive situation where one is driven to search for food closer to the forest but still retreats back to deeper waters
given some of Val hazak’s angler fish inspired features, maybe great girros having gills points to the vale at some point being an ocean or a deep lake
great content as always :)
That and the mega coral that grow from and above the Vale. some kind of ecosystem that was underwater, but thrived so much that even after the water drained the flora and fauna retained their aquatic adaptations.
Oh damn, maybe they were a species that were becoming or were leviathan adjacent like the Ludroth
In parts of the vale you can see and hear the lava flows from the Recess, and the mission where you have to redirect Zorah Magdaros shows that, right next to the Vale, there is a massive cave system partially submerged by ocean water, that connects the Recess and the Vale. You can also see this water in other parts of the Vale, and the entrance of the Recess. This leads me to believe that, before it was the charnel pit we see in the modern day, the Vale was a volcanic seaside cave riddled area and the high nutrient content from the volcanic soil led to the growth of the coral. The coral highland eventually attracted enough creatures and became enough of an obstruction to migrating elders that they started dying there instead of the recess, and that is what formed the Vale.
Its amusing that the sea inspired Vaal is only present in the Vale and not the coral highlands, but I need to remind myself that the Vale is just the bottom of the Coral Highlands, and if the meat wasn't in the way, would look just as coral filled and oceanic as the highland does.
Oh, and we also know that the water levels dropped quite dramatically even in only a few decades, as the Gathering Hub in Astera was apparently at sea level when the first fleet arrived. Which, given the Vales location in semi submerged oceanic volcanic caves, means that the lower levels of the Vale were underwater only a few decades ago.
@@ASpaceOstrichnot sure if they could've adapted within the span of a few decades though. Evolution on that scale would take at least several thousand years
I have hypothesis that the fanged wyverns are actually synapsids and therefore closer to mammals than dragons. The only one thet doesn't share any obvious traits with mammals is dodogama. Shamos and female jagras have an erect gait, girros have heterodont teeth, and then there's wulgs which you can't tell me aren't at least therapsids. Odogaron looks for all the world like a giant gorgonopsian, while lunagaron and zinogre have convergently evolved with canids, but it seems plausible they evolved from cynodonts.
Dodogama is actually based on a mammal- whales.
I had a similar theory but that was only for the new world fanged wyverns (the Garons, Kadachi, Shamos, Wulg, and Thief Wyverns) and I theorized that old world fanged wyverns (Magnamalo and Zinogre) are more closely related to pseudo wyverns who also have mammalian features, large forelimbs, and the wrist blade of Magnamalo and extra long fore claw of Zinogre might be remnants of the pseudo wyvern’s wings
What about Tobi-Kadachi? It,s abnormal among its class and its anatomy suggests it is archosaur.
@@jonesrizal8981in all honesty applying irl taxonomy and relations is a bit wonky, I think it would be better to look at all the taxa and and make thier own clades independently of our ecology
That being said tobi could be an example of convergent evolution if we go at thing you’re way
I think Girros is better adapted for efluvium, since their nest and hunting area appear to have a higher dencity of it, Raddobahn hunts on the upper zone of the veil and rarely goes deeper, odogaron's nest seems to be pretty efluvium free and it only seems to venture through the zones with a lot of efluvium to get carrion.
Each of them has something unique that makes them memorable as good design should. My favourite od probably dodogama due to its cuteness.
Rather than being an actual top order predator, Great Jagras seems to bein reality a vassal predator, that is to say, he is in a trophic level just below the actual top order carnivores (in this case Anjanath and Rathalos) but above all of the mesopredators like Tobi Kadachi, some real life examples of vassal predators are painted wild dogs, brown hyenas and cheetas
Makes you think of how Great Jagras seem to be missing from Rise despite having regular Jagras in the game, looking at available large prey in the shrine runes the Gargwa seem to be the only prey large enough and abundant enough to feed a Great, but they are much faster than your average aptonoth who are no where to be found, it could be due to this that males tend to stay small. Or its just Capcom being capcom considering how we have a whole bunch of baby monsters without their Adult forms.
Yeah, I honestly think Capcom was just like ‘eh, just use these monsters why bother adding the beloved/ depised adult forms of them’ especially jagras cause there is selective pressure to have greats in the form of the great raptors. Great jagras could act as a deterrent to help the smaller jagras out in conflict with the raptors
I had a theory that Capcom chose to not introduce Great Jagras in the flooded forest because they knew that would require tweeking the monster ranks a little bit or better define monsters place is the ecosystem. Since a Great Jagras would no doubt make short work of Great Wroggi
It also fills a role similar to Royal Ludroth in combat, large lumbering and spitting monsters that call smaller versions to attack from the flanks with little coordination
@@DanielisAwesome52 Its crazy I never noticed that similarity, makes me think maybe Leviathans and these Lizard Fanged Wyverns could be connected cause they're all reptilian and didn't evolve longer legs, except maybe Aulmudron and Mizutsune who likely were alike to the mammalian fanged wyverns but came back to the water like otters
Would he though? Great Wroggi does have a venom (Is it venom?) but this is just my Great Wroggi bias talking...
@@MatthewTheEmperorYup venom is correct. I say is more a stalemate and little more favored for great jagras
@@julianswinton5355 Ok good It was hard to tell since Great Wroggi's gas is kinda venom but it could have also been poison. And yeah size wise Great Jagras does have the advantage...
I am beyond happy to see my baby Great Girros being covered. Absolute favorite underrated monster
You have quickly become one of my favorite youtube channels, S tier content.
Random thought ive meant to say for awhile, imagining red khezu occaisionally getting swarmed by Qurio only for it to bug zapper and suddenly have the swarm as a snack. Would be interesting if red khezu were a color morph or maybe even a deviant/variant (not certain on the term usage) that occasionally takes advantage of the swarms after surviving an attacking swarm
The Red Khezu is the original species though, regular Khezu's are albinos.
I've no joke have watched this about 8 times, I've been trying to do some spec bio myself and your videos are apsolutly amazing for what goes where, how to make fantasy concepts realistic, and how to base these concepts in realism. And I really liked how you explained culture in animals for example, that's just an interesting concept to think about
Would be interested in your take on why Shamos doesn't have a Great version in the credits of the next video. My initial thought was that there are not enough large prey items for a large terrestrial carnivore, but Tzi Tzi Yaku is still a thing and Shamos still run in packs which would imply that it feeds off of prey larger than itself.
same thing for the Wolgs
@@keganbancroft3617 I think the Wulgs make sense that there is no Great version as the Hoarfrost is so stacked with top order carnivores (Beotodus, Viper Tobi, Fulgur Anja, Barioth, and Shrieking Legi to name just the endemic ones) that the only way for the Wulgs to survive is to be smaller meso carnivores and target the smaller prey items like Macaques and Anteka.
Yes! I’m so excited for Gammoth
You mentioned in the past that Diablos should be more garish while Gammoth should be more mottled in coloration. I was thinking as to why Gammoth might have said coloration and it might be as a way to see Tigrex as they have the inverse of Tigrex’ colors and might’ve evolved this to train their eyes to see Tigrex. Males might be similar to Kingfishers in that they are more bland in coloration compared to the females but they could use this as a way of recognizing these colors of Tigrex which would make them viable as partners to Gammoth as they’d want those traits past down. That or Gammoth are like Kingfishers in that they simply have more testosterone due to their more competitive nature and therefore more coloration.
Their armored legs might be an adaptation to prevent frostbite with defense against small predators being a bonus. Their armored crest might be a defense against thugs like Tigrex and Ukanlos as well as a signifier of herds as each herd might have their own unique crest shape
So they select for partners that are the least colorblind?
@@Kevin-hx2ky Basically yes, this would improve their offspring’s chances against Tigrex as that is the likely reason Tigrex is able to sneak up on things like Popo- poor mammalian color vision. Tigrex being such a threat to Gammoth would lead to an evolutionary arms race for the Gammoth improving color vision and putting a mating system in place to increase this feature
It’s weird but it’s the most logical solution as to why a female animal would be so colorful that I could come up with.
I knew it let’s go I gotta watch this video immediately I love Jagras, dodo, and girros
love this series, i always order pizza to enjoy the latest episode and ive done this since the Jho video
Honey, quick! Another Unnatural History Channel video has come!!
I think a cool video could be one about the wild felyne and melynx tribes that exist in the old world. What does anyone think?
Also I think a video analysing the general world building of Monster Hunter would be awesome too, specifically the human and wyverian settlements. I am a writer so i look at Monster Hunter from a writing perspective
Might lean too far into Anthropology for UHC to cover
@@Kevin-hx2ky How so
@@unicorntomboy9736 Well evidently they resemble early humans in their technology, as they seem to be proficient, obligate tool users as opposed to an animal using its own tooth and claw. They're certainly past the point of being a "smart animal"
I still love that its stated that whilst Dodogama is Phenotypically a Fanged wyvern Its hypothesised by in game scholars to be Genotypically a Massively derived Blast toad, the development of which was caused by its changed diet of rather pure elder dragon bio-energy crystals.
One of the reasons there arent fanged wyverns in the wildspire could strictly be due to Diablos and Jyratodus, both of which can attack from below, which is particularly dangerous for the low-to-the-ground fanged wyverns. Just an idea.
Unpopular opinion I liked the ancient forest hierarchy over the three lords, great jagras, anjanth and rathalos are in the higher brackets of my favourites and each has a logical reason why they beat the other.
Unlike how garanglom is this massive well armoured animal who can’t protect him self from a small ice puppy.
It has been done to death by now, but the only thing that really worked in Risebreak was the combat, which was however very, very good, obviously.
Neither the yokai nor the western gothic horror themes worked that well for making believable, living, breathing monsters, and the designs constantly reminded me that I was playing a video game - not exploring an unknown ecosystem ( a strength of many past MH titles).
@@1brushstudioYup the Designs were not my cup of tea either. And lets not speak about Magnamolo because oh boy. If unnatural history does a video on him its gona be glurious to see him rant about it overdisgned features
@@1brushstudio I think if you give them another chance if they were in a world like game they could be expanded on, tho something like magnamalo would need to be done from the ground up.
But yes as much as I liked some of the monsters from rise I do have a bias for MHWs designs.
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@@afroling2096Wouldn't the community get upset if they saw some of the Rise monsters return in MH6?
5:00 I know this looping footage is just supposed to be a visual aid, but I can't help but look at it and think, "the boys on their way to bully Aptonoths".
Always liked this trio even if they weren't as fleshed out or as combat-focused as the other monsters in World, especially Dodogama. Not much else to add unfortunately since I think you did a great job covering it, but I am VERY excited for the next video, might be one of the ones I've been looking forward to the most.
“Man where did my car go- I swear I parked it right here”
*suspiciously car shaped jagras* : “no idea-“
I like Great Girros. It gets a lot of flak for being forgettable, but I think it’s pretty memorable when you’re fighting in the Vail and it keeps interrupting fights with Odogaron.
I am absolutely giddy, I was just thinking "I wish UHC would cover the packing fanged wyverns" and my wish came true! I especially love the respect given to Great Jagras, one of my favorite monsters in general not just among starters.
I think the Thief Wyverns evolving partially has to do with the lack of packing raptor wyverns in the New World, allowing for the diversification of fanged wyverns to fill the niches with Jagras, Girros and Shamos of smaller social predators though of course the translation isn't one to one because like you pointed out it is more like harems than a pack. This may explain why Great Jagras isn't in the Flooded Forest and the Shrine Ruins but Jagras is, the likes of Great Izuchi and Great Wroggi out-competing Jagras for larger prey and prey-switching to smaller prey discourages male Jagras from fully maturing into Great Jagras.
As for Great Girros I think the sound resonating came first and effluvium filtration came as its ancestors evolved for the Vale, as sound resonators would be helpful regardless of environment and there is evidence that fanged wyverns might have pnuematized air sacs like pterosaurs and saurischian dinosaurs. As for the venom it is possible inflicting pain could be the primary purpose, as since the paralysis isn't fatal you could be "paralyzed by pain" instead and get a similar result of being unable to move in agony as seen in the game. Also the venom could be used to hunt monsters that come to vale, as it was said that monsters don't just die and fall into the vale but sometimes dying monsters actively seek out the vale to die and here Girros could use its venom to bring them to their demise a little earlier. Even an Elder Dragon at death's door could be brought down with a little venom.
On the topic of Girros, we know from your posts and discussions of the Vale and Coral Highalnds and the monsters once there that its highly likely that the ecosystem used to be an aquatic one, with Val Hazok basically being an ancient Hagfish-Dragon, thus it makes sense that Girros may have once been some manner of aquatic or amphibious animal adapted to this ancient dilluvial Vale before it drained just like Val was.
With that in mind, both the hooded appearance and the neurotoxic venom makes more sense when you start looking at the Girros as a species of aquatic (or semi-aquatic) Elapid like a krait or sea-snake. A krait that was effectively dragged back onto land as its home dried up and whose aquatic adaptations were repurposed for the strange ecology of the Vale. And since its an elapid, then the hooded appearance could be seen as a callback to more well known Elapids such as cobras.
From there, this also makes the relationship with Odogaron interesting, as Odogaron could be viewed as parallel to a mongoose. Heck, if we follow the idea that Girros were once semi-aquatic, then perhaps Odogaron were once shore-hunters that used to hunt the Proto-Girros when they'd come back to shore to lay eggs or mate. In such cases, since pain-inducing venom wouldn't work too well as a defense mechanism for the same reason bee stings aren't too effective against badgers and wolverines, then perhaps the neurotoxin became an adaptation used for both hunting aquatic organism as well as a defensive mechanism against predation from Proto-Odogaron, an adaptation they kept when the Ancient Vale-Sea dried up since it was still a viable strategy to fend off their ancient predator.
When they mention Great Girros has venom for hunting, my immediate thought isn’t active hunting, but more along the lines of finishing off dying prey. The vale’s carcasses are more than likely not all carcasses, and we already know that legiana corpses fall down there. If legiana injures a paolumu, a coral Pukei-pukei, or one of its own and said wyvern falls into the veil, for instance, Great Girros’s venom might be used to finish the job and gain a considerably more energy-rich kill compared to their usual scavenging
I would tame a Dodogama and be the best of friends if they existed in our reality
Was waiting for this for a while since I saw the video on greats & dromes
Excellent work, UHC. I enjoyed the fanged wyverns of World, and especially all there was to learn about them.
UHC: Talk about all three Big Lizards.
Shamos: Am I a Joke to You?
the fact that there is no great shamos is very sad for sure
You not finding Dodogama particularly cute, and most importantly not engaging in the almost obligatory, infantile "chonky boi"-banter only made me like you even more.
As for the video, I am a huge fan of Great Jagras, so this absolutely hit the spot.
Great Girros is easily my favorite pack leader type monster
I absolutely love your content, and it is always interesting. I actually started playing Monster Hunter because of your videos
YEEESSS! Finally GAMMOTH is going to feature in its own video! Can't wait for the next video comes out!
Also amazing video on Jagras, Girros and Dodogama. Thanks a lot, man! You're the best!
"Could I offer you a lizard in these troubling times?" ~Unnatural History or something
I've always liked the concept that the thief wyvern and the dromes/greats used to have a lot of overlap and once the old and new world separated they out competed each other in the respective continents for the niche of lower end pack hunting predators, which is why I'm legit annoyed we never got a great wulg in iceborne to be the next step in the thief wyverns using thier pack, especially with the pin move that wulgs have would have been great to see the great wulg command the small wulgs to pin you, it's something I really feel was missing from iceborne
Fantastic Video as Always! :)
Great Jagras is one of my favorite monsters for its many interactions with the world. Some time ago I learned that you can actually get a Great Jagras to instigate an attack if it looks at you for ~20 seconds while you are in the underground Jagras cave. You can get Great Girros to attack you too if he briefly looks at you in area 7 in the Rotten Vale.
Pretty sure Great Girros attacks you on sight no matter where or when
@@lonradb That's not true. Great Girros does not attack you on his own as long as you're not in its home territory, in the arena or in combat with another monster.
The small Girros however do always attack you.
Excellent video as always! Just one nitpick: I wouldn't simply say Anjanath lives in open areas. Maybe open forests but it seems to be well suited to forest life despite its size. They probably favor forests that have a good amount of both space and dense foliage; the latter of which help the beast hide in ambush from aptonoth and other large to medium sized prey AND from the tropical heat.
"Client: Inquisitive Handler
They say that Anjanaths are built for the forest. They roam it like kings, but now that an Azure Rathalos has showed up, we got a real fight on our hands!"
Honey… wake up, new Unnatural History Channel video.
You know its a good week when he uploads
"I don't think Dodogama is cute. Shoot me."
Shots fired!
Surprised you didn't bring up the idea of a generalist ancestor that all these fanged wyvern species derived from.
I can’t wait for the Gobul video so you can talk about the weird critters of the deep ocean
Great Girros and Odogaron are two of my favorite New World monsters, and their ecological interactions with both each other and the environment of the Rotten Vale are so intricately thought out that I find them both to be some of the most fascinating lore from Worldborne overall. Really happy to see their competition interactions discussed in detail here ^.^
Something worth noting about Girros is that much like Acidic Glavenus, they intake higher levels of effluvium and wield paralysis in thier arsenal. It could be that both species process effluvium making their own paralytic enztmes out of it (or in Girros case applyfing existing venom). Its also likely why we see Girros succumb to efluvium despite being native to the vale unlike Raphinos, they simply overestimated thier ability to process the bacteria.
15:18 I always thought a reptile evolving gills was weird. I have a headcannon that Giros is actually a type of axolotl like amphibian that resembles a reptile, but it's not, just convergent evolution.
Me and my brother just went hell yeah when we saw this video pop up in the recommended. This is a great video.
I wonder if Great Girros evolved from an aquatic Wyvern similar to Lagiacrus? Considering just how deep the Veil seems to go, there may have once been a subterranean waterway connecting it to the ocean. This underground river could have been blocked off by seismic activity, trapping a population of these gilled wyverns in the Veil. The gills that were originally to help in its aquatic lifestyle then adapted to help filter effluvium?
I would love to have a big ol'jagras in my room and just feed him and scratch him and give him pets. He has the lovable look between a bearded dragon and an iguana.
gammoth gaming, great video on the greats, and thank you for doing great jagras some justice
nothing better than befriending a girros to get free paralysis in a hunt.
My headcanon for odogaron is a high-performing immune system. It might also literally "heat up" after eating, who knows what the optimal temperature for effluvium is... maybe that can be a barrier to infection.
I personally split Fanged Wyverns into 2 groups, Mammal-like and Reptile-like. Mammal-like are monsters like Zinogre and Magnamalo having extended digits on their forelegs used for various different purposes and generally have "fur" on their body while Reptile-like lack those characteristics and generally have a more basal body structure to lizards and such, notable exceptions being Odogaron and Lunagaron who still lack the extended digits like Zinogre and or Magnamalo but are more derived then the sprawling posture the New World Fanged Wyverns have
I personally find the classes fanged beast and fanged wyvern confusing sometimes.
Fanged beasts contain mammals like:
Rajang, Garongolm, Arzuros and Gammoth.
Fanged wyvern contain animals with scales like:
The thing wyvern listed above, magnamalo, Zinogre, and Lunagaron.
I usually class them as:
Wolves, big cats and lizards are wiverns
Primates, bears and tusks are beasts.
We need an aquatic great jirros boss if they bring back underwater combat
Oooooh looking forward to the Gammoth video!
Regarding Girros' paralytic venom. In games I tend to assume that there is more to ecosystems and envirionments than what we see. Theres probably some prey animals that Girros hunts that we just don't see in game. Hell, it could even be young Odogaron.
I think you're right about the gills originally allowing the filtering of volcanic gasses. There are parts of the Vale where you can see and hear the lava flows from the Recess, and its likely that the area was once volcanic before it became the charnel pit that we know today. Volcanic soil being so high in nutrient content does have a neat way of slotting into the development of the coral highlands and then by extension the Vale. And it may well be that the coral highlands came first, though not originally high enough to be called a highland. Especially if the coral can use dragon energy.
EDIT: In fact, I just remembered that you redirect Zorah Magdaros in an area right in between the Vale and Recess. An area of volcanic caves partially submerged in the ocean, and this water is visible in both parts of the Vale and the entrance to the Recess. From this I would infer that the Vale was once seaside volcanic caves and the high nutrient content of the volcanic soil led to the growth of the coral, which likely began in the water and survived on land due to water levels dropping (which we know happened quite dramatically even in only a few decades, the gathering hub in Astera was apparently at sea level when the first fleet arrived). As this coral grew higher, enough creatures were living in it and it became enough of an obstruction to the Elder Crossing that Elders began dying in the Highlands instead of just the Recess, which is what caused the formation of the Vale on its lower levels.
EDIT 2: I would love a video on that subject actually. The water level in the New World dropped so severely, so recently and in such a short amount of time. The ecosystem has surely been affected by this. If we can assume that this flucutating water level is responsible for the coral highlands existing at all, (and by extension the Vale), what other effects might it have had? It could be that the New World is rising out of the water rather than the water level of the entire world dropping 60 metres in as many years.
Really interesting about these lizard big cats and dogs creatures. 🦎🐆🐺
Excellent video as always! Any thoughts on the Shamos and why they don't have a Great?
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Great Jagras regurgitating to escape or under duress can be seen in gameplay, if the hunter damages the engorged belly enough before it spits up everything (either by using the smaller attacks too frequently or its one large attack) you can topple Great Jagras and force it to spit up around it. Its mostly seen in the Greatest Jagras hunt, where it has extremely boosted stats and access to new attacks.
Greatest Jagras really is the best fight, its similar to G Rank Odogaron where they start in their alt modes. Odo has a heat up mode that it never gets a chance to use in Low and High Rank, and Jagras's Full Belly mode is how the Greatest Jagras fight starts, at first it was a really tough fight. unfortunately the community figured it out pretty quick because farming decorations was so necessary
I personally prefer the bears as a similar set of early game threats. But these are equally endearing.
Cutest boys
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I think that the presents of jargras in the Old World is accidental, maybe they are escaped pets, invasive species by traveling with ships when they are young, introduced to be hunted for sport, or they were already in the Old World. What do you think is the motive that the jagras is in the Old World?
I find it f'd up that within mh lore lavasioth, gigginox, dodogama, duramboros, and like khezu, are technically dinosaurs
It could be possible great jagras has a mechanism to prevent choking. Instead of the flexible bones being in it’s skull and jaw there in it’s throat and ribcage in order to allow the breathing canals more room to expand.
It's possible that the cannibalism is similar to the killing of cubs lions do too, eliminating other males who will become competition later, or perhaps even removing females pregnant with another male's eggs. With the probable high turnover of great jagras, a male moving in and culling the existing pack to suit him makes sense to me
Its only a matter of time until we have to fight....
*THE ELDER JAGRAS*
I hope gammoth and uragon will have their own episodes plus gravios because I have heard somewhere that they are tamed as pets and that’s interesting because is it possible to domesticate some of these monsters?
Well if you listen to the roar at the end of the episode, I think you have some good news coming your way!
@@temporal712 ( happy gammoth noises)
Dodogama is the peak of evolution. He is the perfect creature!
Haven't watched the video yet but that thumbnail goes hard!
Starter monster!? It's a finisher monster! A beast of the gods! The golden god!
Watching your Monster Hunter Videos makes me want to play Monster Hunter.
Too bad I can't right now
Personally I think Dodogama would be a great starter monster if they just introduced it early.
I disagree, on the basis that you would have to fight dodo in the early game, possibly multiple times.
@@FatManWithNoPlans Just make it a capture quest, problem solved.
LETS GO, GAMMOTH VIDEO WOOOOOOO
I always thought dodogama should have had little followers too
we are the followers
I know that roar! I am excited! :D
Still disappointed by the lack of a Great Shamos
Do you have any theories as to why there are no great shamos? I always thought it was a bit odd that the highlands put tzitzi in the place where I feel it should have been, gameplay wise.
nice video
Omg! Finally! Someone else thinks dodo isn't all that cute! Thank you!
I have a very different take on great jagras as a starter. I think it is a uniquely excellent starter in all respects except for a small HP pool. It is an excellent monster to allow new players to fill out the weapon that they chose to start with against. The fact that it is basically a moving punching bag that occasionally has well telegraphed attacks is what makes it so excellent for this purpose. If it had more HP for your first encounter, it would serve this purpose much better. Even a new player will be hard pressed to not learn how to defeat this monster to have a guaranteed win during their first hunt even with an increased HP bar.
The other two members of this trio have a distinct issue in my opinion however. They are both far too easy of a fight, and both far too underwhelming of a battle for where they land in the game. I personally theorize this is because of the way the monsters and biomes were introduced in world, and in a game where you were simply presented with a large number of hunts and a less rigid quest and biome order, they could have been presented much sooner and come off as much more suitable.
Great!!
Even just having a Girros along makes any Odogaron hunt go so much smoother it isn't even funny. Also, I'm somewhat surprised you barely mentioned how the Girros are the most cooperative of the three; not only is Great Girros commonly seen flanked by two Girros, their smaller ilk also can be commanded to lunge all at once with a cry from the biggun, and unless I'm just crazy they also seem to up their ferocity if the Great Girros is tripped.
Is it stated anywhere in the Complete Works that Girros also don't look after their young? Because if there's anywhere it would make sense for such behaviors to develop, it could well be the Rotten Vale. It could have started out as a habit of moving eggs if effluvium density increased, and maybe when that became commonplace it branched out into at least rudimentary parental care behaviors. (Granted, I'm going off on this unlikely thought based purely on their cooperative behaviors when it's probably just as simple as "big fangs = big boss leader lizard".)
...Although I forgot if it loses the ability to command/receive support from the Girros if said fangs are broken.
Also I'm still baffled that only the Great Jagras had a unique weapon model in base World. And that it was for the HBG of all things. That, plus Tzitzi and Paolumu getting similarly shortchanged, probably didn't help that "mid-game slump" feeling you had. Either way, thank you for another wonderful video!