What Galileo Galilei had to say about King Kong

Kong shows intelligence and curiosity, I have heard of no criticisms to these aspects of his behavior. When the first King Kong was made, almost nothing was known of gorilla behavior, but gorillas are so close to us that the writers and animators succeeded in giving Kong an acceptable personality. He comes when you call him with the gong (but even a turtle that I had at home, a Kinosternon scorpioides, did that); he turns the mechanism that keeps Ann’s ropes stretched to set her free, and he makes sure she is safe when the planes attack.

On land, bigger animals are heavier and need thicker legs, and for this reason Ewalt (2005) wrote that Kong was too big to walk: his bones would be crushed by his weight because of the square-cube law, described in 1638 by Galileo Galilei (who found that volume grows faster than area when one changes the size of things). Our current analyses of Kong and his island are not different from those that Galileo applied to another imaginary being and his habitat, i.e. Lucifer and Hell; and he was only following the steps of Antonio Manetti (1423-1497), the Florentine mathematician, architect and writer (Fisher, 2011). Regarding the question of why serious academics should pay attention to such useless topics, I cite Galileo himself:

Source: https://drnorth.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/

It is an admirable and difficult thing ... that men should have been able by long observations, continuous vigils, and perilous navigations, to measure and determine the intervals of the heavens ... and the place of earth and sea, things that completely, or for the greater part, fall under the senses. How more wonderful should we consider the study and the description of the place and size of hell which lies in the bowels of the earth hidden from all the senses (full translation: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/mpeterso/galileo/inferno.html).