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Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.

The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are still on the track, and have been since 1992. But as if chasing unknown animals wasn't enough, we are involved in education, conservation, and good old-fashioned natural history! We already have three journals, the largest cryptozoological publishing house in the world, CFZtv, and the largest cryptozoological conference in the English-speaking world, but in January 2009 someone suggested that we started a daily online magazine! The CFZ bloggo is a collaborative effort by a coalition of members, friends, and supporters of the CFZ, and covers all the subjects with which we deal, with a smattering of music, high strangeness and surreal humour to make up the mix.

It is edited by CFZ Director Jon Downes, and subbed by the lovely Lizzy Bitakara'mire (formerly Clancy), scourge of improper syntax. The daily newsblog is edited by Corinna Downes, head administratrix of the CFZ, and the indexing is done by Lee Canty and Kathy Imbriani. There is regular news from the CFZ Mystery Cat study group, and regular fortean bird news from 'The Watcher of the Skies'. Regular bloggers include Dr Karl Shuker, Dale Drinnon, Richard Muirhead and Richard Freeman.The CFZ bloggo is updated daily, and there's nothing quite like it anywhere else. Come and join us...

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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

A NEW DEPARTURE

I don't like e-books and I don't like e-journals. Indeed, several of my favourite magazines have become e-journals in the last few years, and it has invariably been the kiss of death for them. However, I am constantly being badgered by the young whippersnappers who seem to proliferate all across bloggoville. They tell me that I am old fashioned, and Oll even told me that I should "get with the times" on one occasion. (I threw a bottle at his head).

However, I have been persuaded to start issuing our two magazines in a digital download format, as well as in a more traditional form. I am dipping my toe gingerly into the difital ocean by issuing the current issue of our journal Animals & Men, which is the only dedicated cryptozoological magazine in the world, in digital format as of today.

You can see an image of the cover (featuring our dear departed CFZ Doggie `Tessie`) on the top right hand side of this page. Click on it and you will be invited to spend two quid (that's just over three dollars to you on the other side of the `Herring Pond`), for a download. That is very nearly half price.

C'mon guys. Give it a go.

CONTENTS:

3 Editorial
4 Faculty of the CFZ
6 Newsfile
13 Newsfile Xtra: Siberian vampire moths
16 Obituaries
19 Mystery cats diary: Max in Somerset
21 Letter from America: What’s new
23 Happy Birthday Nessie
24 Aquatic monster log book
28 The Oz Factor: A fake zookeeper
32 Bigfoot notebook
36 London Bear Scare
39 The Wanstead Ewok
40 Vietnamese forest man
43 Vietnamese turtle rescue
44 2009 Yearbook
45 Weird Weekend 2008
50 CFZ People: Jordan Warner
52 Letters
55 Book reviews
58 The sycophant
60 Agitprop

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