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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, June 03, 2010

THE AMATEUR NATURALIST #8 (Edited by Max) IS IMMINENT

Page 3 Editorial
Page 5 Who’s who?
Page 7 Contents
Page 9 News - The tragedy of Three Owls
Page 13 News
Page 15 News Feature - tragic tigers
Page 17 News
Page 25 Club news
Page 27 Peculiar Pokies
Rare and interesting spiders
by Lucy Henson
Page 30 Riddle of the sand boas
by Richard Freeman
Page 35 When the whip comes down
Tail-less whip scorpions
by Graham Smith
Page 30 The life and times of a ladybird hunter
Lars Thomas
Page 42 A swimming rope you say?
Ropefish By John Dixon
Page 44 Prehistoric fish in aquaria
Page 45 To Aggtelek, Hungary and back
Butterfly conservation expedition
By Richard Muirhead
Page 53 On the track of unknown cockroaches
Max Blake
Page 59 Exclusive extract from
A Daintree Diary by Carl Portman
Page 69 Small ’n’ spiny
Spiny mice by Oll Lewis
Page 73 Euroscorp cometh
The genus Euscorpius by Graham Smith
Page 77 The forgotten Characins of Africa
By David Marshall
Page 82 Ross and the hedgehogs
Page 85 Newphasma's nice
An exciting new stick insect
by Janice Holt
Page 87 To see the world in a grain of sand
Micro-aquaria By Tony Lucas
Page 91 Anomalous arachnids by Max Blake
Page 97 Column: Lucy’s Life
Page 98 Column: Corinna’s endangered species
Page 99 Column: Trevor’s tails
Page 101 Bookshelf
Page 105 About the CFZ


CONTRIBUTORS

Jon Downes, Graham Smith, Graham Inglis, Corinna Downes, John Dixon, Tony Lucas,
Richard Muirhead, Lars Thomas, Carl Portman, Janice Holt, Richard Freeman, David Marshall, Oll Lewis, Ross Phillips, Lucy Henson, Trevor Smith, and Max Blake

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