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Before Palicos and Palamutes, the Monster Hunters experimented with numerous companion species.  Here we see one of the squirrel-like species, who were rejected because of their "timid disposition and aversion to blood."  Here we see one watching in horror as it watches the party get massacred by a xeno'jiiva.