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:
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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
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This is super interesting. I've been fascinated by the Deloys Ape photo for a long time. It's said by some to be the same animal as the cryptid known as the Mono-Grande in South America. There are several conflicting, contradictory versions of what the Deloy's Ape photo really was. Some think it's a wild Spider Monkey. Others say it was Deloy's own tame pet Spider Monkey which died. Deloy's decided to hide its tail and photograph it.
ReplyDeleteDeloy's claimed his sighting and the animal in the photo was taken near the Tarra River in the Colombia/Venezuela border. This area is notorious for having deadly snakes, malaria, giant spiders, giant centipedes, Anacondas, Jaguars, Caiman, and scariest of all, it's the lightning capital of the world. Lake Maracaibo and the Catatumbo River are infamous for having the most frequent lightning strikes in the entire world. A person is vulnerable to being struck by lightning in this part of the world more than anywhere else in the world.
The Mono-Grande is believed to be the same animal as Deloy's Ape by some people. Mono-Grande are said to be violent and dangerous and become highly agitated whenever they see humans. They just hate people. There's at least one case where a man said his son was attacked and killed by a Mono-Grande some decades ago. He noted the creature assaulted his son with a club. Mono-Grande lives in a highly remote inaccessible, dangerous part of the world. It's a forbidding, foreboding part of the world.
South America has numerous cryptids and countless Square miles of unexplored land where cryptids can live and where very few to no people live. It really is a Lost World out there. It's endlessly fascinating. Thank you for the photos.
Thanks for your kind words, and yes, the mono grande is a fascinating subject even though the Loys photo is of a faked specimen, not a genuine cryptid. There have been many mono grande reports in the wild, which I suspect inspired Loys to create his fake as a joke that got out of hand.
DeleteI would like to order the book Extraordinary Animals Revisited by Karl Shuker. Does Barnes and Noble bookstore have it? Barnes and Noble is the only large chain bookstore left where I live. I can also order it by mail and have it shipped to my house. I can pay by cash or by money order. What's the price for this book? What other titles are available by author Karl Shuker? Where can I order back issues from Fate magazine and Fortean Times magazine? Barnes and Noble sells Fortean Times magazine on a monthly basis. Fate magazine is sadly discontinued. Many of the subjects are interesting from these books and magazines. Thank you and keep up the outstanding work. I look forward to more books about cryptozoology, paranormal phenomena, the after life, the Garden of Eden, exotic places such as the Marquesas islands, the Seychelles Islands, the Hawaiian islands, Tahiti, the Cook Islands, Maupiti, Ponape, Kosrae, Yap, the Chuuk Islands, Saipan, Puerto Rico, and Dominica.
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