A SHUKERNATURE VIDEO(S) OF THE DAY

A couple
of photo-stills from my two AI-generated video clips of the familiar cropped version
of the notorious Ameranthropoides loysi
photograph (the centre image here) coming to life (AI photo-stills and videos created
by me using Adobe Firefly)

It’s been several months since I posted
here on ShukerNature a ShukerNature Picture of the Day (click here to access the most recent one),
and I have never posted a ShukerNature Video of the Day – until now, that is.
Moreover, because I’m a generous kind of guy, I’ve posted two, not just one, as
you can see. But what is their theme, their subject matter? Here’s my answer:

Have you ever wondered what would have
happened if Loys’s ape Ameranthropoides
loysi had been genuine, not a hoax, and its fake photograph had come to
life? Wonder no longer!

These two video clips were generated for me
yesterday by the AI image-generation program Adobe Firefly in response to two
separate prompts provided to it by me – one was a detailed verbal description
written by me, the other was a visual prompt consisting of the original Ameranthropoides loysi photograph,
reproduced below:

Allegedly
dating from 1917, this is the less familiar uncropped version of the notorious Loys’s
ape photograph, revealed several decades later to have been a hoax, featuring
the dead body of a pet spider monkey (public domain)

One ever-present, ever-surprising factor
that I’ve encountered numerous times when utilizing various different AI
image-generation programs to create the pictures and most of the videos
appearing in my pictorial biker/motorcycling-themed blog RebelBikerDude’s AI Biker Art, is the
sheer unpredictability and often truly surreal nature of their output, in which
all manner of unexpected, wholly unprompted visual details are frequently included
by the programs in their generated images (bikers anomalously sprouting wings
comes readily to mind with my AI biker art blog!). Sure enough, the second
video in this present ShukerNature article will be seen to include – albeit only
very briefly – some strange large object appearing and disappearing behind the
creature’s back. What it is is anyone’s guess!

To read my comprehensive three-part coverage
on ShukerNature of the entire A. loysi
photo saga, be sure to click here, here, and here. It also appears as an entire, fully-updated
chapter in my book ShukerNature
Book 2: Living Gorgons, Bottled Homunculi, And Other Monstous Blog Beasts.

There is also a shorter version in one of my earlier books, Extraordinary Animals Revisited: From Singing Dogs To Serpent Kings, which features a sepia-tinted version of the Loys’s ape cropped photo on its front cover:

And which has an unnerving habit of coming to life if not watched closely!

Video created by me using Grok Imagine