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Great start to a taxon that needs more coverage here. Thanks again stemturtle! Did you not get one of the Jungle Book figures of a Gigantopithicus? Normally I would not collect anthropomorphized characters but at least they were realistic looking in the recent Disney movie.
Quote from: bmathison1972 on March 07, 2018, 12:19:42 AMGreat start to a taxon that needs more coverage here. Thanks again stemturtle! Did you not get one of the Jungle Book figures of a Gigantopithicus? Normally I would not collect anthropomorphized characters but at least they were realistic looking in the recent Disney movie.I do not own the Gigantopithicus figure from the Jungle Book. Here is a link to King Louie by Bullyland on eBay. Gigantopithicus belonged to subfamily Ponginae in Asia, with 3 species ranging from 9 million to 100,000 years ago.
Great addition stemturtle! Looks like a nice realistic figure, rather than an anthropomorphised character.King Louie actually is not in the Jungle Book books. He was added for the Disney cartoon movie, but when they made the live action/CGI one a couple years ago, they changed Louie from an orangutan to Gigantopithecus, namely because the former has never occurred in India whereas the latter has!I am surprised this figure didn't get more chatter on DTF since it's an extinct guy!