This video is an honest and more or less scientific attempt to figure out, whether King Kong could theoretically exist in some corner of our world. Several other videos on such topic that can be found on YouTube focus mostly on Kong’s size, which is, I believe, only half of the story. The other important thing to consider is the ecosystem in which King Kong is supposed to live – and more often than not, that's an island, which play by their own set of quite specific rules.
So, to get a complete overview of the subject, I explored most of the known King Kong movies, starting with the original black and white 1933, and ending with CGI Monsterverse incarnations that team up with Godzilla and wander the Hollow Earth. Besides Kong, this video reviews some other fictional primates, such as Mighty Joe Young and George from Rampage. All of them were evaluated according to how well they do with Square Cube Law, as well as how they compare to the extinct giant primates such as Gigantopithecus and Archaeoindris. Various nuances of island biogeography and evolution get tackled along the way – such as extinction of giant tortoises, tiny mammoths and many other island species. There are lots of hand-made pixelart infographics to make the story more comprehensive, including many maps, charts and tier lists, and I rly tried to stick to real science in my research as close as possible. So… join me in this exploration of giant fictional apes, it’s gonna be curious!
Also, this video is just the first of many that I plan to do on various kaiju species, so keep subscribed if you don’t wanna miss them!

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:56 Square Cube Law issues
2:45 How tall was Kong
6:51 Kong ecology
10:45 True and false island gigantism
15:02 Island dwarfism
16:08 Archæoindris case
17:22 Kong vs. humans
17:45 Giant ape origin tierlist
20:52 Ultimate fictional primate plausibility tierlist & outro

Idea, research, script, pixelart, voice and editing by Surge
Music by Heepothesys
Inspiration by Paula

*a lot of the information given in the video is based on the knowledge of the author, who has no special education in most of the topics he speaks on, so please take it with a grain of salt and leave a comment if you disagree

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