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.
Unlike some of our competitors we are not going to try and blackmail you into donating by saying that we won't continue if you don't. That would just be vulgar, but our lives, and those of the animals which we look after, would be a damn sight easier if we receive more donations to our fighting fund. Donate via Paypal today...Well its not either a cat or a bat. We think lemur. But how about you?
Finally, after six months of faffing about, production has started on the new CFZ movie, tentatively entitled Emily and the Big Cats. It tells the story of a fifteen year old girl called Emily who's family see a big cat in the North Devon woods, and her own quest to find out about it.Here we see the filming of the opening 
sequences, as Emily walks through Huddisford Woods telling the story of her Uncle and Aunt's sighting that first sparked her interest in the subject.
Back in February, Jon Hare described Jon as looking more like a cross between Dumbledore and Hagrid every day, although we would say that he looks increasingly like an unholy melange between his `real` father, and his adopted one, the quondam Wizard of the Western World. However, it is undeniable that 
his greying beard makes him look either wise or massively eccentric (or perhaps both.
He is driving the Daihatsu, while Graham (forgetting his advancing years) squats, filming in the open back, filming.
Emily Taylor (15) seems to be taking working with such a bunch of middle aged weirdos (we are not counting Max as middle aged, but during the session he was certainly a weirdo who spent most of his time climbing up 
trees and chuntering happily to himself, he took all these pictures by the way).
This film is a technical challenge for Jon who, as Director, is finally in the position of being able to `direct`. Usually he just has fifteen or twenty hours of raw footage from an expedition plonked on his desk, and is left to get on with it. Working in such a conventional manner is somewhat strange for him
Over on Cryptomundo, Loren has posted a story about a of a supposed new sighting of the pink headed duck. The pictures were allegedly taken by a Mr Thorns back in February, and if they are what they appear to be then it would seem that congratulations are in order.
The pink headed duck is supposed to have been extinct in the wild since the 1930s, although there have been intermittent claims of their survival ever since.
These are the first pictures of the newborn yellow bellied girardinus from our Cuban biotope tank. They were born yesterday, and Max and I watched the first four of the little chaps popping out.
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/
I would think that if you’re taking the time to read this bloglett you’ll be wanting to know what the latest cryptozoology news is courtesy of the CFZ daily cryptozoology news blog and Mr Wilson (not to be confused with the other Mr Wilson). Here is the news:
Investigating the Cattle Mutilation of March 2009 in Trinidad, Colorado
Snakes on a plane
Mystery animal snapped
And
‘Man bat’ reported in Chihuahua, Mexico
Why, that ‘man bat’ must be tiny to fit in a… Ah, I see, I’ve read the headline wrong… carry on, as you were gents.
This is another specimen from Truro Museum, and is the only bona fide Cornish specimen of the red squirrel that I have been able to find. In 1966, S.C. Madge wrote that the species was almost extinct in South-eastern Cornwall, although ‘there still might have been a few at Mount Edgecombe’.
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