That's how my painting looks now. I changed the title from "Terrarium Snake and Monarch Butterfly" to "Inside". That's an insssider.
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It's almost complete. Later it gets a frame that represents a terrarium. Then, if sloth wills, it's finished.

The Frankfurt central station is the second busiest long-distance train station in Germany with almost half a million travelers and visitors a day. Because of its location in the middle of Germany, the Deutsche Bahn (German railway company) refers to it as the most important station in Germany.🚂🛤️🇩🇪

Sadly, right in front of the train station, you find the red light district. Here you mainly come across drug addicts, urine smell and prostitution. 😔

The skyscraper on the second photo is Westendstraße 1. The third tallest skyscraper of Frankfurt was completed in 1993 and, at 208 meters, is also the third tallest building in Germany. The characteristic ring is intended to indicate Frankfurt as the coronation city of the Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire. 🌃👑

Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus percnopterus) at breakfast.🦅 ⠀ ⠀
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"How about some salt and pepper for your delicious cadaver?" - "No thanks, sir! It tastes best on its own!" 😋

The Römerberg (Roman Mountain) in Frankfurt.
Numerous coronations of the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire took place on this square. Afterwards they met for the coronation meal in the town hall. The town hall, called Römer, built in the 15th century, was destroyed in the Second World War. You see a bit on the very right side. Since it was foreseeable that Frankfurt would be the target of bombs, much could be saved from the destruction beforehand and the building was documented as well as possible. So a very authentic reconstruction was possible.

The church is the medieval Lutheran Old St Nicholas Church. It was only slightly damaged by the bombing. Construction of the church began in the 13th century. It has had its current appearance since the 15th century. In the course of the Reformation, the church temporarily lost its function. It was leased for over 150 years and used as an archive of the municipal lay judge's court and at times as a warehouse during trade fairs. The lease was terminated in 1719 and the church was inaugurated again in 1721 after restoration.

In the building on the very left there is a small coffee and exchange office. There is a connection between the owner and me. His father was the American Ernest Biberfield from District Information Services Control Command. When my great-grandfather was still assigned administrative tasks in the Buchenwald concentration camp after the end of WW2, Bieberfield informed my family about the early takeover of Thuringia by the Soviet occupying powers and about my grandfather, who was missing in the West.
So my great-grandfather traveled to the American zone at the invitation of the American headquarters in Frankfurt.

The Apocalyptic Peacock 🦚💙

If I look at that, I want to be a penguin. But I'm a sloth. 😁⠀ ⠀
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Are the zoos or even public swimming pools open for you?
Most of our zoos in Germany are open since the beginning of May.
Now I have read that the swimming pools are reopening too.

🌊🌊🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧💕🌞 All ready for an early swim?😁 I forgot my swimming trunks.😳
Hmm.. maybe it wouldn't have been necessary...😏 Do penguins bathe naked, or in a dress coat?🤔💭⠀ ⠀
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Incidentally, these are Humboldt penguins. The same species that I saw in the wild in Peru (Islas Ballestas).💙

Yesterday I went to the zoo with my girlfriend. Doesn't she look adorable? 🐧💕🐜 ⠀ ⠀
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Corona is such a 💩!
Can't meet my real girlfriend...
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The zoo visit was very nice. Only a few people... sunshine... I could make a lot of photos and videos... 😁🌞

So what is that? Weird animal! This is not a human being! 😲
I smell flowers! 🌻💕
Weird animal and flowers... I have to go there! ❤
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Kalusho is the only black rhino at Frankfurt Zoo.
His female companion Tsororo died of a complication of the uterus in 2016.
Together they had three daughters. All of their daughters were released into the wild in Africa.
The eldest daughter Akura became a grandmother four years ago in the Marakele National Park.


Kalusho, now 33 years old and originally from Zimbabwe,
should actually be released together with Tsororo 8 years ago.
However, it failed.


For most of the 20th century the continental black rhino was the most numerous of all rhino species.
Around 1900 there were probably several hundred thousand living in Africa.
In the early 1990s the number dipped below 2,500, and in 2004 it was reported that only 2,410 black rhinos remained.
By 2019 the population of 5,500 was either steady or slowly increasing.



🎼Music: "African meditation dance" by Stefan Kartenberg (2017 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 3.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)

Today I sent another cheek swab to the DKMS ( German Bone Marrow Donor File, @dkms_de ).🤗 I was asked to do because they need to know if I was infected with the cytomegalovirus. This is a herpes virus, harmless to healthy people, but quite dangerous for weakened people, such as leukemia patients.
I registered as a stem cell donor 14 years ago. At that time, it already worked very simply with cheek swabs. You could easily order a set at home. The tissue characteristics are stored in a database and compared with patients who are waiting for a transplant. So far there hasn't been a sufficient match, so I haven't yet been asked to donate cells. If someone needs my help, I'm there!🙃✌ ⠀ ⠀
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(You aren't a bad person just because you don't! Tissue characteristics are sensitive data. I just want to raise awareness.)