Plus I am hesitant to assign real-world rules for the animals a given monster is based on
Ironic given how you act when you're browsing this forum (specially when I'm involved), but oh well... I'm not here to judge neither your modus operandi nor your train of thought (unless I must protect myself from either of them... which is quite the recurring phenomenon around these corners sadly).
I don't care how friendly you are with each other (that's pretty much irrelevant truth to be told) the only thing I mentioned is that given these particular circumstances your lesson wasn't necessary... and something that's pretty much impossible to miss if you take 5 or 10 seconds of your life to read the posts previous to that one...
And Kaijin you are the "Perentie" of this place, IMO.
.... So, did everyone forgot about this one until now?
It was you, rainbow coloured people, who forgot to update her status.
Her visual revamp and her innecessary "lung capacity expansion" were already mentioned, discussed and people got to be reeducated for the 5520th time by the "professor" because he misunderstood a post in the thread (and preaching seems to be way easier than asking apparently).
And Kaijin you are the "Perentie" of this place, IMO.