Moose feasting on pumpkin on Halloween Night
The other day I was watching “Night on Earth”, the documentary series on Netflix about the hidden lives of the world’s creatures at night.
My favorite episode was “Sleepless Cities”, the one showing how animals adapted to populate even cities at night, despite the humans and their 24h lights.
This episode made me reflect once again on the impact of humans on this planet. Many animals that are NOT night animals and do not have a night vision had to adapt and move at night, in order to avoid humans. Other night animals, which rely on stars for their migrations, cannot see anymore the way, because of the light pollution!
I decided to illustrate some of the animals portrayed in this fascinating episode, and raise awareness about the precious value of darkness.
There is one particular night, in which the moose decide to visit the town of Anchorage in Alaska, and that is the spookiest night of the year: Halloween.
This is not some kind of creepy gathering, but rather a pumpkin feast!
Those big animals are in fact coming to town to have a big dinner - each of them can eat 20 kilos of pumpkin.
When they are satisfied they are ready to go back to the wild.
I found this story very funny and picturesque and really enjoyed illustrating it.