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THE MEGAPRIMATUS APES:

REALM/HABITAT: Skull Island: 2005 rendition & the Lost Continent.

MEDIA ORIGIN: 2005 rendition of King Kong by Peter Jackson

Art & Image by the great Vinicius Barros

The Megaprimatus apes were a staple of Skull Island, living on the mountain ranges, far off the floor of the dense rainforest below.

Contrary to popular belief, this species did not meet its extinction from other creatures, such as the mighty V-Rex predators, but most probably from plague and disease.

This can be more notable when seeing the skeletal remains of their populace, which still litter the homesteads they once inhabited.

If their deaths were caused by predation, their bodies would have been scattered and bones crushed down for their nutritious marrow.

These apes are typically between 15 to 25 feet tall, but some reports claim them to be even larger, some attaining 30 to 35 feet tall.

Be that as it may, these apes were native to the island, but appear to have been bred to attain large size by an advanced civilization that most certainly had built the very walls that enclosed and encompassed the island.

Because of this, it would appear, that at least in some sense, these great apes had some notion of domestication towards some factions of these humanoid settlers so many centuries ago.

Yet this was NOT the humans that live on the rocky coast of Skull Island's shores, for these peoples were a collective of stranded settlers that originaly were shipwrecked from far off South Pacific islands.

These "natives" of Skull Island are a pathetic people in comparison to the beasts of the inner island, but they seemed to have separated themselves from the innards of the dangerous isle, via a lava moat.

Still, they are regularly prey for a wide assortment of nightmare creatures that roam the coastlands.

These indigenous humans, do however worship the Megaprimatus apes, probably simply due to their more humanoid appearance, as well as for the scaring off myriads of giant reptilian beasts that often hunted their human populace their.

Because of this, these beasts are often revered in their myths and legends, but the stone motifs and giant sculptures that depict these apes, were most likely odes of appreciation from the much earlier civilization that ruled Skull island.. that is before the fauna became so wildly dangerous, it over took even them!

This may be in part to the plague that wiped out the giant gorillas, that probably defended the humans, so once the apes were gone, protection from the vast bevy of predators on the island, proved too much for those humanoids to withstand.

REMARKS:

The Megaprimatus is far more than just an oversized version of a modern day Silverback Gorilla.

Because centuries of breeding was invoked to enhance them, they have much more size-to-ratio strength than that of normal gorillas.

By the battles they have had with very strong, and often larger predators, it seems the muscle fiber tension and make up of their anatomy has much greater tensile strength than a gorilla of the same size.

This is hinted at not only in their fights with other beasts, but their moving and building of their lairs, which often are circled about by parts of massive stones and heavy ruins, which would be too heavy for most Skull Island creatures to move about with the relative ease these great apes do...

Featured here is a Megaprimatus, fighting of a territorial Rock Mastodon from the rocky coastline of Skull Island's jagged shore line.

Description
THE MEGAPRIMATUS APES:

REALM/HABITAT: Skull Island: 2005 rendition & the Lost Continent.

MEDIA ORIGIN: 2005 rendition of King Kong by Peter Jackson

Art & Image by the great Vinicius Barros

The Megaprimatus apes were a staple of Skull Island, living on the mountain ranges, far off the floor of the dense rainforest below.

Contrary to popular belief, this species did not meet its extinction from other creatures, such as the mighty V-Rex predators, but most probably from plague and disease.

This can be more notable when seeing the skeletal remains of their populace, which still litter the homesteads they once inhabited.

If their deaths were caused by predation, their bodies would have been scattered and bones crushed down for their nutritious marrow.

These apes are typically between 15 to 25 feet tall, but some reports claim them to be even larger, some attaining 30 to 35 feet tall.

Be that as it may, these apes were native to the island, but appear to have been bred to attain large size by an advanced civilization that most certainly had built the very walls that enclosed and encompassed the island.

Because of this, it would appear, that at least in some sense, these great apes had some notion of domestication towards some factions of these humanoid settlers so many centuries ago.

Yet this was NOT the humans that live on the rocky coast of Skull Island's shores, for these peoples were a collective of stranded settlers that originaly were shipwrecked from far off South Pacific islands.

These "natives" of Skull Island are a pathetic people in comparison to the beasts of the inner island, but they seemed to have separated themselves from the innards of the dangerous isle, via a lava moat.

Still, they are regularly prey for a wide assortment of nightmare creatures that roam the coastlands.

These indigenous humans, do however worship the Megaprimatus apes, probably simply due to their more humanoid appearance, as well as for the scaring off myriads of giant reptilian beasts that often hunted their human populace their.

Because of this, these beasts are often revered in their myths and legends, but the stone motifs and giant sculptures that depict these apes, were most likely odes of appreciation from the much earlier civilization that ruled Skull island.. that is before the fauna became so wildly dangerous, it over took even them!

This may be in part to the plague that wiped out the giant gorillas, that probably defended the humans, so once the apes were gone, protection from the vast bevy of predators on the island, proved too much for those humanoids to withstand.

REMARKS:

The Megaprimatus is far more than just an oversized version of a modern day Silverback Gorilla.

Because centuries of breeding was invoked to enhance them, they have much more size-to-ratio strength than that of normal gorillas.

By the battles they have had with very strong, and often larger predators, it seems the muscle fiber tension and make up of their anatomy has much greater tensile strength than a gorilla of the same size.

This is hinted at not only in their fights with other beasts, but their moving and building of their lairs, which often are circled about by parts of massive stones and heavy ruins, which would be too heavy for most Skull Island creatures to move about with the relative ease these great apes do...

Featured here is a Megaprimatus, fighting of a territorial Rock Mastodon from the rocky coastline of Skull Island's jagged shore line.