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| - Gigantopithecus is an adoptable animal in Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals.
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- Gigantopithecus (from the Ancient Greek γίγας gigas "giant", and πίθηκοςpithekos "ape") is an extinct genus of ape that existed from perhaps nine million years to as recently as one hundred thousand years ago, in what is now China, India, and Vietnam, placing Gigantopithecus in the same time frame and geographical location as several hominin species. The fossil record suggests that individuals of the species Gigantopithecus blacki were the largest known apes that ever lived, standing up to 3 m (9.8 ft), and weighing up to 540 kg (1,190 lb).
- Gigantopithecus are huge, 12-foot tall gorillas that dwell on the mountain slopes of Eodon in sizeable clans. These primates are normally not a threat, since they are vegetarians and not aggressive. However, there are a few among them that occasionally run amok, and these are truly dangerous. Animals and man alike flee when a Gigantopithecus attacks. In Savage Empire, one of these beasts ran off with Halisa, the daughter of Halawa. Thankfully these mad individuals only seldomly appear.
- Dinosaur page 118 Gigantopithecus became the dominant hominid.
- Gigantopithecus was a large species of ape that lived during the ice age.
- Gigantopithecus was a genus of ape which lived during the late Miocene to late Pleistocene epochs in Asia. It was the largest primate ever to exist.
- The first Gigantopithecus remains described by an anthropologist were found in 1935 by Ralph von Koenigswald in an apothecary shop. Fossilized teeth and bones are often ground into powder and used in some branches of traditional Chinese medicine.[5] Von Koenigswald named the theorized species Gigantopithecus.[6]
- Gigantopithecus ("giant ape") was a large ape that might have been able to walk bipedally. It lived in China, India, and other parts of southeast Asia. There are a total of three species of Gigantopithecus, the most famous being Gigantopithecus blacki. It is believed that this animal ate bamboo as do pandas and was a relative of the orang utan of Sumatra and Borneo. It live alongside a species of primitive man known as Homo habilis that lived in Asia at the same time, 4 - 1 million years ago. Some have suggested that this ape still exists, stalking the Himalayas as the Yeti and the bamboo forests of China as the Yeren. Some researchers take this even further by suggesting it crossed the Bering Land Bridge into North America, establishing itself as the well-known Sasquatch, or Bigfoot.
- Le Gigantopithèque, ou Gigantopithecus (en grec : singe géant) était un genre de primate qui a vécu du Miocène supérieur au Pléistocène moyen. Certains chercheurs lui attribuent une taille de trois mètres ce qui ferait de lui le plus grand anthropoïde ayant jamais existé ; il aurait pesé alors entre 300 et 550 kg. Cependant, il est difficile de se prononcer de façon certaine sur sa taille et sa masse, puisque jusqu'à maintenant tout ce que nous avons de lui sont des fragments de mâchoire et des dents, mais ces éléments dépassent en taille ce que nous voyons chez les anthropoïdes actuels. Jusqu'à maintenant, on a trouvé des restes dans le sud de la Chine, dans le nord de l'Inde du Nord, et aussi au Pakistan. On suppose qu'ils se nourrissaient de bambous, puisqu'on a trouvé certains fossiles
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