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.
Unlike some of our competitors we are not going to try and blackmail you into donating by saying that we won't continue if you don't. That would just be vulgar, but our lives, and those of the animals which we look after, would be a damn sight easier if we receive more donations to our fighting fund. Donate via Paypal today...
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On this day in 1889 Charlie Chaplin was born.
And now the news:
Chaplin's Finest hour, this is as true today as it was when he first spoke these words:
Last Sunday, Corinna, my nephew Ross, Prudence and I went to the monthly bird sale at Northam. I was vaguely looking for a parakeet so, of course, I came back with a pair of Bengalese finches. These are particularly interesting birds because they are not actually a species; they are a long-standing domesticated complex introgressive hybrid of several small southeast Asian seedeaters, including - I suspect – several of the munia tribe. There is actually a mystery here, because as far as I know, no-one has ever investigated the actua
l antecedence of these pretty little birds, despite the fact that they have been domesticated as caged birds for many centuries.
nership post haste.
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