The sloth enjoyed a sunny Sunday along with Mother Nature! 🌞🌼🐝 ⠀
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🎶 Music: "Delta Blues"
👤 by Stefan Kartenberg 🔖 2020 - Licensed under
Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0)

Gagagag! 😝😝😝 ⠀ ⠀ ⠀
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Music:
"Empire Of Jungle (Nude version)" by SergioDag - 2019 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) - creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

Old friend, is it snow? ❄🌻🌻❄

The "Trip Trap Layer Cake", created by the moths of my fur.

My darlings! ❄🌻❄🌻

Last night, I summoned the Krampus.👹 I wish you all a nice St. Nicholas Day!🎅 In truth, Nicholas came yesterday to my dear serpent.🐍🐁❤ He brought frozen mice and I even got about a spoonful of dry ice. (Yippie!😆) I didn't want to waste any time and quickly picked up a few things from the room that I thought would work well with the fog.🤔 A mirror, three crystal glasses, three candles and a small figure from Peru (condor, cougar, snake). Of course you can't recognise the figure correctly.🙃 It could also be the Krampus, half goat, half demon. He doesn't go around here in Hesse, but in Bavaria.


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Who say he's not a Hesse?😜
In a hurry I didn't align it perfectly, but no matter. The result looked pretty good.✌ I don't have much video editing experience yet, so I learned something new again: This time I've dealt with the track mask keying. You take a grayscale picture, which you put over the video. It's like a transparency mask. Where the picture is black, the video is completely transparent. The brighter, the more opaque the video is. If you put another video underneath, it will be visible in the transparent areas. That's basically how I made this experiment yesterday. The second video was done professionally with Snapchat.

This is supposed to show a sleeping ground sloth. It's fallen totally exhausted into a dream-filled sleep. It's already clear to me that a ground sloth hardly slept in such a position. This is called artistic freedom! I often sleep in similar position!😜


With their huge claws, these extinct representatives of the South American megafauna were able to dig impressive burrows. A particularly large burrow can be found, for example, in the Brazilian state of Rondonia. It consists of several tunnels with a total of 2,000 feet in length (around 600 meters) and was probably extended over several generations.

In the past, sloths were a very diverse group. There was even a semi-aquatic species in Peru that showed similarities to otters and beavers.

Some cryptozoologists think there may still be live ground sloths, somewhere in the Amazon. Basis for this assumption is a myth of the Carios, according to which a monster (the mapinguari) living in a cave on their tribal territory in the Brazilian rainforest. One may doubt and still dream. I suspect that only well-preserved remains were found in a cave (in fact, ancient fur remains have been discovered) and the rest was done with imagination.

Happy Halloween!👿 A good time to be creative! This video was made entirely from still images. I chopped them up, put them together again and breathed life into them. And sent them to my neighbourhood! My lame laptop took 13 hours to generate the video. Unfortunately, not everything went exactly as planned. Can't be corrected before Halloween is over. But I'm pretty proud of the sounds I created! 😅

Trippy Tree Friend Magic Hedgehog

🌸🚁 Marmalade hoverfly (male),
Episyrphus balteatus
(06/2019 in Oberursel, Germany)

Marmalade hoverflies always follow the nice weather! 🌞 This species belongs to the migratory insects and forms dense seasonal swarms. In autumn, these travel from Central Europe to the Mediterranean region (vice versa in spring). The hoverflies cross the passes of the low mountain ranges, the Pyrenees and the Alps! 👍🐝



🎶 Music: "Hey, Are You Here?"
👤 by Kara Square 🔖 Licensed under
Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 3.0 🔊 Sound effect: "Helicopter"
👤 by navaneetha kris 🔖 Licensed under
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0