BRINGING TO LIFE THE (IN)FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPH OF LOYS'S APE: A SHUKERNATURE VIDEO(S) OF THE DAY

  A coupleof photo-stills from my two AI-generated video clips of the familiar cropped versionof the notorious Ameranthropoides loysiphotograph (the centre image here) coming to life (AI photo-stills and videos createdby me using Adobe Firefly)

It's been several months since I postedhere 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, asyou can see. But what is their theme, their subject matter? Here's my answer:

Have you ever wondered what would havehappened if Loys's ape Ameranthropoidesloysi had been genuine, not a hoax, and its fake photograph had come tolife? Wonder no longer!

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

Allegedlydating from 1917, this is the less familiar uncropped version of the notorious Loys'sape photograph, revealed several decades later to have been a hoax, featuringthe dead body of a pet spider monkey (public domain)

One ever-present, ever-surprising factorthat I've encountered numerous times when utilizing various different AIimage-generation programs to create the pictures and most of the videosappearing in my pictorial biker/motorcycling-themed blog RebelBikerDude's AI Biker Art, is thesheer unpredictability and often truly surreal nature of their output, in whichall manner of unexpected, wholly unprompted visual details are frequently includedby the programs in their generated images (bikers anomalously sprouting wingscomes readily to mind with my AI biker art blog!). Sure enough, the secondvideo in this present ShukerNature article will be seen to include – albeit onlyvery briefly – some strange large object appearing and disappearing behind thecreature's back. What it is is anyone's guess!

To read my comprehensive three-part coverageon ShukerNature of the entire A. loysiphoto saga, be sure to click here, here, and here. It also appears as an entire, fully-updatedchapter in my book ShukerNatureBook 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: