My interest in Giganthopithecus was fuelled when I saw an artistic interpretation of what one of these apes might have looked like, and I was struck by the immediate resemblance to my ex-partner. Regardless, much of what we know about this 540 kg 'bigfoot' comes from teeth and jaws found in Vietnam, and the dental studies show that they lived on a diet of seeds, fruit and bamboo. What led to their extinction is likely to be a combination of climate change and a low reproductive rate, although there is also a strong possibility that Homo Erectus aggravated their demise, as shown in this aforementioned illustration:
Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Gigantopithecus
Labels:
bamboo,
epoch,
gigantopithecus,
homo erectus,
pleistocene
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