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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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Saturday, February 18, 2012

BIG CAT NEWS: "The good news you can not refuse, the bad news is there is no news"

The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column inches than any other cryptozoological subject.

There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived in some way by us, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in.

It takes a long time to do, and is a fairly tedious task, so I am not promising that they will be done each day, but I will do them as regularly as I can. JD






Big cat claims in area

Derbyshire Times
MAJESTIC panthers and cougars could be roaming our county, which has been described as a “big-cat hotspot” by members of the British Big Cat Society. The predators have been spotted throughout Derbyshire in recent years, with 17 sightings reported to ...

This is another round up of news featuring an interview with Danny Bamping, whom I have heard very little from in the last few years. I am actually not sure where the picture that accompanies the article came from. Meanwhile, This is Somerset reprise the story of the pawprint photographed by the Bristol Barber. We covered this a week or so ago, and Richard Freeman is adamant that the print was made by a dog.

Was this footprint made by a big cat?
This is Somerset
A barber believes he may have captured the paw print of a big cat stalking in the Binegar area. Luigi Armato, 32, snapped the print on his phone near the village while out on a shooting trip with his father and brother. Mr Armato, of Muller Road in ...

and finally, another crypto beer...

Big cat released in Stroud
This is Gloucestershire

"We were keen to bring it back, and we thought because it's a dark beer, a stout, it fitted in well with a big cat theme." Stroud made national headlines after a mystery black beast was spotted in the area, and carcasses originally believed to be ...

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