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But what we do know is that there is no way King Kong could exist in real life. For that, we have Gigantopithecus's jaw remnants to thank — and the rigid rules of biophysics.
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Read More »The latest reincarnation of King Kong, Kong: Skull Island, hit theaters on Friday with a familiar storyline: A gigantic ape wreaks havoc, humans try to take the monster down, and when they succeed, the world is restored back to order.
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Read More »Bocherens breaks it down, working with the assumption that the giant ape that terrorizes Tom Hiddleston and company in Skull Island hovers around 30 meters (about 98.5 feet) high. “That’s totally unrealistic!” Bocherens scoffs, with a chuckle. With every meter in height, Bocherens says, we should expect about eight times the volume. Doubling from one meter to two meters, in other words, doesn’t mean a doubling in the volume — it means the two-meter individual is eight times the volume of the one-meter individual. That’s because volume not only takes height into account, but width and surface area. In the case of Gigantopithecus versus Kong, we’re talking about a comparison from an animal that’s already coming in at three meters high and around 270 kilograms (a whopping 595 pounds) to a seemingly insurmountable 30 meters tall and 4,050 kilograms heavy (8,928 pounds, or about 4.5 tons). That’s quite the monster, but Bocherens says that when you consider the fact that Kong is stuck on an island for the extent of his existence — whether that be Manhattan or a non-existent South Pacific island, Kong’s volume-size ratio makes it impossible for him to exist. “There are limited resources on an island,” Bocherens explains. Not only would Kong wipe out all the vegetation needed for his diet pretty quickly, but also there’s no way he could even exist as a giant ape. In fact, island-bound animals tend to evolve as smaller versions of their landlocked counterparts: they’re shrunken, more efficient, and require less mobility and food to fuel their existence. Which brings up the fact that Kong’s existence as a giant ape is further complicated by his seemingly plant based diet. Gigantopithecus’s jaw indicates that he wasn’t munching on flesh, which lines up with what we know about modern day primates — our largest ape today, the mountain gorilla, is an herbivore, and the primate most like humans, chimpanzees, might go wild with the occasional insect or go on a hunting trip but rarely consumes meat. “If you are big, you need to eat a lot,” Bocherens points out, which makes a plant-based diet the most efficient for big animals. It’s inefficient — the volume of food required to make the smallest dent in protein intake is daunting — making Kong’s size that much more unrealistic. Gigantopithecus’s likely demise was, perhaps ironically, at least partially a result of climate change — the plants it relied on to fuel its everyday existence ceased to exist, Bocherens says, pointing to a drier, hotter environment that reduced the lush vegetation Gigantopithecus had relied on.
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Read More »The other reason why Gigantopithecus disappeared off the face of the Earth: humans. One hundred thousand years ago, humans from neighboring islands were probably exploring, came across the gorilla, and either hunted it into oblivion or ensured its starvation. It’s a story that oddly lives out today, acting as a warning signal for the power of humanity to permanently destroy what is natural and create fear where there may be none. Bocherens, for his part, dismisses and forgives Kong as a purely cinematic trope. “Movies are for entertainment,” he says. “It’s fun to watch. If I can bring the attention of people to weird large animals and have them ask why it’s impossible for them to live in real life, [then I’ve done my job].”
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