uproots tree

This time, he made it. But when he reached the camel’s foot tree, Kong discovered it to be a spindly little thing. Its dripping branches offered insufficient shelter for an oversized animal such as himself.
Frustration had been building in his breast, and now it exploded in primordial fashion.
Seeing that the tree was useless for shelter, the titanic beast-god seized it with both mighty hands, began swaying and shaking it, twisting it this way and that until he had uprooted the entire bole from the waterlogged earth.
With a roar of anger and defiance, Kong flung it as far as he could. By this time, the roosting egret had taken flight and struggled to leave the vicinity.


King Kong vs Tarzan, Chapter 56