Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts

[Wolverine]

(05-25-2019, 12:36 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(05-25-2019, 12:14 AM)Wolverine Wrote:

(05-24-2019, 11:44 PM)Spalea Wrote: @Pckts :

About #743: very impressive photo ! An alpha male baboon  is a very huge beast and seeing one of them so close to a leopard without starting to fight each other is awesome.

Could you imagine what will happen with the cat if on the place of baboon was the ancient mega-baboon Dinopithecus ingens 
weighting up to 100 kg, probably the most terrible primate ever roaming the planet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinopithecus

*This image is copyright of its original author

*This image is copyright of its original author

When looking at that dimensions picture, it just looks odd. It is said, that up to 100 kg, averages much less, then comparing to a human and that looks like something, which should be like 200 kg if not filled with air mostly.

Here is one other picture, where is another extinct primate, estimated to be also up to 100 kg. It looks so different. I wonder if these pictures of dinopithecus are accurate? I mean it looks like bigger than gorilla which after all can be double the weight, which is said about dinopithecus, something just doesn´t feel right now.

This picture is from this site:
https://prehistoric-fauna.com/Theropithecus-oswaldi

Obviously the size of baboon of the lower image is significantly exaggerated by the painter, probably in order to emphasise the horrible nature of the animal, actualy it looks like a creature from horror movie - kind of "werebaboon", its possible that it was created after watching a "Dracula" or listening the music of the Finish singer Tarja Turunen… 
However the image from post #748 even being no doubt more realistic also should not be accepted with 100% trust. It compares average 83 kg man with baboon in its maximal weight (up to 100 kg), both species should be in their average or both in their maximal size. I know from East European forum the guy who created it - we call him "Rom", a Russian artist, very tallanted man, with inspiration and vision, but as long as I know he is not paleontologist or scientist. Neverthelless his images are respected and highly popular in the web. I mean, when we talk about ancient animal we can never be sure how it looked like externally, always with prehistoric beasts the fantasy play significant role. Reply