ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

News and stories from the remoter fringes of the CFZ blogosphere...

From CFZ Australia:

• Surprise, surprise - Vic big cat hunt falters — Government downgrades investigation of puma-like big cats...

From CFZ Canada:

• MacFarlane’s Bear — Was this mysterious 19th century specimen a polar-brown bear hybrid?

CFZ PEOPLE: Emily Taylor

Emily is 18 today. Happy Birthday my dear

HAUNTED SKIES: Times (The) 28.5.55

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2012/01/times-28555.html

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1961 Dashiel Hammett died. Hammett is often credited as the originator of Hard Boiled Detective fiction.

And now the news:

Appeal launched for Patagonian grebe
Like magic, Harry Potter's owl spotted across US
Wind farm to be built at site of decisive Civil Wa...
Climate change affecting Europe's butterflies and ...
Crowds thrilled as whales feast on birds
New spill emergency as grounded ship breaks up off...
Wind turbine blades fly off in storm
Missing wedding ring found on carrot 16 years afte...

A clever trailer for Hammett’s Nick and Nora mystery The Thin Man:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSNJ-8ouQEM

FLORA AND FAUNA INTERNATIONAl: Sumatran tiger appeal

FFI needs to raise £70,545 in order to continue our conservation work in the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. This is one of the final strongholds where the Sumatran tiger can still be found - only 700 are left in the wild.

Proposed road building plans are putting the tiger at further threat of extinction.

Please make a donation now to help us reach our target.

http://ffisumatrantiger.org/

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SCOTT WALKER - 69 Years old today

DALE DRINNON: Two new postings on the Frontiers of Anthropology

Voyages of the Pyramid-Builders, which not only disputes the idea that pyramids (Ziggurats) originated in South Asia (Sundaland), it suggests strongly that the pyramid-building tradition in the Sundaland area is a secondary wave coming back out of Mesoamerica as recently as the 12th and 13th centuries AD (including evidence of Old World maize then):
http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2012/01/voyages-of-pyramid-builders.html

And a message from David Campbell (writer on the subject of pyramids on his own) commenting on two of the other recent FOA blog postings:
http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2012/01/comment-by-david-campbell-on-origin-of.html

CFZ PEOPLE: Dale Drinnon brings us up to date with the world of 'Cedar and Willow'

Just a short blog at Cedar and Willow to start catching up again: this is the first one there for January.
http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2012/01/chickie-as-others-see-her.html