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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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Thursday, August 13, 2009

SNAKEBITE FATALITIES IN EUROPE (That sounds like an album by `The Residents`)

I just received the following e-mail:

Hello to all,

please remember my www subsite on fatal snake bites in Europe

http://www.vipersgarden.at/bite.php

I would like to ask you to check the site and if you have new or missing
data to mail those to me (also links to sites are welcome).

Thanks for your attention!

mit freundlichen Grüßen/with kind regards

Mario Schweiger

So, despite not having heard of the chap, I did just that. Basically, being the first day of the Weird Weekend, I have lots to do, and so I got up at about 6:30 to do the bloggo. I also had indigestion after having necked back too much brandy last night, and so didn't sleep too well. Biggles isnt very well at the moment either, so I came downstairs to check on him. He went out for a pee and then bumbled into the office with me. The two of us sat down and looked at Mario's site.

I had never actually thought aboput snakebite fatalities in Europe, and was surprised to find that there had not been one in the UK since 1975...

Fascinating stuff
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