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.
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Nice photos, but a little slim on explanation. I know that happens sometimes.
The billboasrd is obviously reproducing a reconstrucion of "Peking man" but I suppose it is close enough that you could say it meant to depict an Almas sort of creature.
Unfortunately, Cryptid names such as Yeti and Yeren, and even Bigfoot, are loosely used and do not name any one particular sort of thing. They all name a series of vaguely comparable things and in each case include more manlike and more apelike (or even monkeylike) reports. So basically people have got to be more careful when they use such names. "Yeren" is probably MEANT to mean the Almas-like wildman originally (Heuvelmans has it that way) BUT what are usually reported in the press releases as "Yerens" are not ordinarily of that type.
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