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...
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We have a huge cottonwood growing next to our house and its root system is the favored habitat for lage numbers of immature subterranean cicadas. On the 17-year cle (probably 13 years, too), they come up in swarms to shed their juvenile skins and take flight. My Northern neighbor gets a lot of them on the south wall of his garage and he hates them-he sprays insecticide on the castoff skins (which I suppose relieves some frustrations or something, it cannot do any hurt against the cicadas. I like my neighbor well enough but I intensely dislike his habit of spraying poisons around so close to my house)
I say all that to say this year there is only one castoff skin on his garage's south wall (which happens to face my bedroom window) Since there is only the one, I suppose that cicada was just a little out of synch with the rest of his swarm, and the rest came up last year.
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