Thursday, October 14, 2010
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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.
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I saw the blurb saying "(NB: Folks, prepare yourselves for a tirade from Richard F about yeti colouration LOL)"
Actually, there is a longstanding debate about the Yetis being depicted as white among Cryptozoologists. Many of them even deny that Yetis are reported as white. The anwer actually is that more than one thing is called a Yeti and that the giant (Gigantopithecus?) type has been reported as white before. That is evidently the same type as the Sasquatch in North America, which is also regularly reported as white. Ivan Sanderson mentioned that male Sasquatches could be grey or grizzled in colouration and my explanation of this is that they have something like a silverbacked gorilla effect, only they get the lighter colouration all over. White Yetis occur in some of the traditional depictions as well as in certain reports since the 1930s.
Best Wishes, Dale D.
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