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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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Tuesday, September 01, 2009

NEW ARRIVALS

Maxy arrived yesterday, but he was encumbered by molluscs. First up was a brace of swan mussels of magnificent size that he brought me for a belated birthday present. Dear boy; it was very kind of him.

He put them into the Hong Kong community tank together with my Asian bitterlings, and we hope that this will inspire them to breed.

However, I am sure that the dear boy will spend the next few months telling everyone how I gazed myopically at the tank for nearly an hour before noticing the new arrivals.

He is already telling everyone how this is just another symptom of my approaching senility, and how if I am not actually prepared to go into the library with a bottle of port and a revolver, I should at least resign forthwith and let him be director of the CFZ in my stead.

Jackanapes!

However, on the way down to us from Wells, Maxy stopped off at a pet shop that shall not be named and made an urgent telephone call to headquarters. There were, he told me, some rare and beautiful snails including the larest apple snails he had ever seen. They were going to die slowly and unpleasantly in the shop unless we bought them, so - against my better judgement, and despite being skint - we did.
They are certainly magnificent; four apple snails (including two the size of large apples) and five Brotia pagodula from one teensy weensy river in Myanmar (which sounds eminently Kiplingesque....

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