User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Pukei-Pukei/@comment-15446856-20180217121805

With it being a Bird Wyvern, having poison and having attacks heavily resembling that of Chameleos or even Khezu you'd think this monster would end up being awful. But surprisingly enough it turned out to be one of the few Bird Wyverns that are fun to fight.

Since its a beginning monster, it isn't hard to deal with. You can simply avoid its poison and tongue attacks by attacking it from behind, and hit its wings and tail. They really wanted to show off the new monster World A.I here, as they incorporated a unique mechanic of it eating nuts and fruits when enraged that will change the effects of its poison spit attacks. It may eat Scatternuts and give its poison attacks the Stun status (although I do have very bad things to say about that status in World in the future). Or, it may eat nuts that turns its poison attacks into gas, and in rare cases, its tail will swell up and soon after it does a great looking attack where it sprays the poison stored in an arc of gas. The tongue attacks are no problem as they are easy enough to avoid and they don't steal your valuable healing items like Chameleos does.

I really like how the colour scheme fits into its habitat of the Ancient Forest, and the multi-colour tail really shows its inspirations for its design, that being frogs from the Amazon Rainforest and chameleons.

As for weapons, they are the go to for poison. There isn't any other real choice (not yet as of this blog), of monster weapons that have poison ailment.

IMO this is a better Chameleon monster than Chameleos, as it doesn't steal your items, doesn't have any time wasting invisibility, and is far less annoying to fight.