ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

No less than ten new posts from the Wild Frontier in the last 24 hours, so I thought I'd better clear the backlog:

From Nick Redfern's "There's Something in the Woods...":

• Winged Humans/Flying Humans — with reference to Mothman and Owlman...
• Casting Orang-Pendek — the latest news from Sumatra...

From CFZ Australia:

• Support the CFZ to a tee — and buy the T-shirt...
• Thylacine anniversary poignant for Tassie — the last known Tasmanian Tiger died in September 1936...
• Of crows and yowies — Cryptozoology featured in a mainstream newspaper...
• Fox baiting in Tasmania ramps up — The biggest invasive animal eradication blitz in the world...
• Devils' hopes lie in Barrington Tops — the Devil Ark breeding program opened yesterday...
• Fossil hoard uncovered in Western Australia — "There were a lot of complete skeletons of megafauna species just sort of lying on the cave floors"...
• Funding injection to save Tasmanian Devil — a $600,000 funding boost to assist the Devil Ark program...
• Metamodel confirms Thylacine's killers — software models explore the roots of extinction...

27th Midwest Herpetological Symposium

27th Midwest Herpetological Symposium - October 21-23, 2011 -Sponsored By
THE MINNESOTA HERPETOLOGICAL SOCIETY

The event will be held at: Best Western Kelly Inn-2705 Annapolis Ln N.
Plymouth, Minnesota, 55441-Phone: 763.553.1600

Friday Night Ice-breaker
Dav Kaufman (Minneapolis, Minnesota) - "The making of Herpers and Herpers II."
Keynote Presentation
Barney Oldfield, DVM (Hesperus, Colorado)
"Crotaphytid Odyssey

Saturday Speakers
Jeff LeClere (St. Paul, Minnesota) -
Minnesota DNR "Herps of Minnesota"
Jeff Ettling, Ph.D. Candidate (St. Louis,
Missouri)- Curator of Herpetology, St. Louis Zoo
"The Spatial Ecology and Habitat Usage of Armenian Vipers, Montivipera raddei, in Two Different Landscapes."
Tony Gamble, Ph.D. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) -
University of Minnesota
"Describing South America's Lizard Diversity: From
the Field to the Lab Bench"
Salvatore Santelli (Annville, Pennsylvania) -
Trustee, World Chelonian
" The North American Wood Turtle: Personal Experiences with Them in
the Wild and Captivity"
Chris Tabaka, DVM (Battle Creek, Michigan) -
Staff Veterinarian, Binder Park Zoo
"Role of the Veterinarian in Field Conservation Research

PRUDENCE UPDATE

Prudence went to the vet yesterday, and was told (actually it was Corinna and Graham that were told) that she is now allowed to climb stairs (under supervision) and climb on and off furniture. It will still be some weeks before she can run about outside again but she can - at least - do most of the things that she enjoys, and which have been denied her ever since her operation...

HAUNTED SKIES: A collection of clippings from May 1968

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2011/09/various-cuttings-may-1968.html

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 2008 Falcon 1, the first ever privately owned spaceship, was launched into orbit by SpaceX.
And now the news:

Shark takes kayak man for a ride
'Heat-Proof' Eggs Help Turtles Cope With Hot Beach...
Frog killer immune genes revealed
Wolf caught on camera trap in Belgium - Video
Not one – but two rare species found at Kent reser...
Lock of hair pins down early migration of Aborigin...
New study says birds learn how to build nests
Deadly bird disease trichomonosis 'spreads to Euro...
Endangered Species Act Protection (Via HerpDigest)...

Graham should like today's vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FQhtMrUQlE

DALE DRINNON: Chupacabras solved!

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2011/09/chupacabras-solved.html