Caracas, January 6, 2015 .- The ‘gigantopithecus’, a giant ape hundreds of thousands of years populated Asia and that would be the closest version of a real King Kong, could be extinct victim of climate change not being able to change their diet, according to new scientific research.
According to the newspaper ‘The Telegraph’, the researchers believe that the largest primate that has existed, and for hundreds of thousands of years lived in the then semi-forests of Southeast Asia and southern China, could be up to three meters tall and weigh up to 500 kilos.
Previously there were no tracks on the reasons for the termination 100,000 years ago. However, after conducting a series of studies on changes in carbon isotopes in the enamel of the teeth of the animal found in Thailand and China, an international team of scientists concluded that the monkey, which was strictly vegetarian, He could not change his diet when the fruits of which he fed disappeared with the arrival of the ice age.
“The ‘gigantopithecus’ probably did not have much ecological flexibility and possibly lacked the physiological capacity to resist stress and food shortages, “says the study, published in the journal ‘Quaternary International’. / CLAA.
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