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(09-08-2018, 10:26 AM)Wolverine Wrote: If it was much smaller than 500 kg it will just not survive in tiger habitat I think.
I have red an opinion that if tropical forests of Africa are inhabited by tiger sized predator gorillas can not survive. Among leopards they succeed to survive but even such not so big cat could possess an extreme danger, more especially during the night when the majority of the primates are helpless and the cats are in their element. If theoretically we introduce tiger-sized predator in African forest gorillas have 3 choices - a.) they have to enlarge to Gigantopitechus size, b.) to get smaller like chimps and orangutans, guit the ground level and start to inhabit predominantly the crowns of the trees or c.) to be eaten out and disappear as a specie. 
Orangutan in tiger habitat preferred to flee away on the trees. It even prefer to drink a water without descending to the ground in order to avoid the tigers:

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Since the Giganto had died off quite early, something like 100 kya, and by that time, the Homo sapiens had only barely migrated out Africa and were too sparsely populated in Asia.

And the Home erectus were getting close to the nightfall prior their extinction.

It was plausible that these two species of hominids in Asia didn't cause the downfall of the Giganto, since the human technologies of 100 kya or earlier were simply too primitive to tackle against the large animals.

Rather we could focus on another super predator that overlapped with the Giganto during the course of the Pleistocene Asia; the tiger.

The tigers had always managed to flourish in Asia, and could be the main threat for the Giganto.

If these tigers were modern sized which got outweighed by the Giganto 2:1 like the leopard to the gorilla, then the Giganto shouldn't have major problem to deal with them in most of circumstances.

However, the Pleistocene tigers were massive beasts with fearsome canine teeth and claws that could potentially annihilate a large bovid with a single bite, just look how the half-sized modern Bengal tigers used to deal with the gaurs.

Since the Giganto most likely couldn't outweigh the Pleistocene tiger by 2:1, but rather 50% at best, that's why they got troubled, and eventually got overhunted by those giant tigers. Reply