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Changes in climate during the Pleistocene era impacted the prevalence of bamboo and may have lead Gigantopithcus to rely mainly on fruit for its diet. This comes from the fact that many fossilized Gigantopithecus teeth contain eroded enamel, most likely the result of a diet that contained high amounts of acidic fruit.

There is also speculation that competition with Homo erectus may have contributed to the extinction of Gigantopithecus. This is due to the discovery of both Homo erectus and Gigantopithecus fossils in South China, indicating that the two species may have coexisted at one time. Coexistence may have lead to competition over food such as bamboo, which was quickly becoming a rarity with the changing climate of the Pleistocene era.