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...
Whilst the focus of the CFZ Mystery Cat study group is predominantly the search for proof of the British big cats, it would be unrealistic to forget that this is only part of a global mystery-cat phenomenon.| First Snow Leopards Captured, Collared And Released In Afghanistan RedOrbit The big cats will be tracked by WSC to better understand their behavior and range of travel. So far, the first snow leopard, Pahlawan, released on May 27 has traveled more than 125 kilometers; while the second cat, Khani Wakhai, released on June 8, has ...Cougar makes rare appearance in UP The Detroit News A rare daytime photograph of a cougar roaming in the Upper Peninsula is bolstering arguments of wildlife experts that the big cats are doing well in Michigan. The Michigan Wildlife Conservancy —a nonprofit organization formed in 1982 — released a photo ...Police Reports Marinscope Community Newspapers A resident reported a large mountain lion on the property. The cat took off before officers arrived. Woman down: Bridgeway. A woman who had been drinking was reportedly lying on the ground. A friend of the subject arrived and took responsibility for her. Cheetahs escape from zoo Austrian Times The female big cat named Juvi fled its enclosure on July 1 and was able to run around the surrounding residential neighbourhood for a number of hours before being caught. And it wasn't the first time the wild animal had been given a taste of freedom. Lion kills farmer in Amreli village Indian Express Forest officials said they have launched a hunt for the big cat, fearing the animal may attack villagers again. Jasadhar range deputy forest officer J K Makwana said, “Bhikha Jalu (50) was sleeping outside his home at his farm in Nagheri village of Jaffrabad ...Mountain lion captured in OC is moved to private zoo Los Angeles Times A battery of tests, including blood work, chemical panels and disease screens have come back normal, said Dr. Scott Weldy, the Lake Forest veterinarian who has been caring for the big cat since it was captured in Whiting Ranch. The mountain lion is being ...Possible panther sightings put Mantua on alert NewsNet5.com Deputies set up trail cameras in the area, but they have photos of everything except the mystery cat in question. According to the sheriff's office, they believe the animal was a pet that someone released. The Portage County Sheriff's Office is working ...Biologists ID Holden mystery beast – Out There - BDN Maine Blogs By John Holyoke Kemper takes no pleasure in shooting down mountain lion sightings, or in refuting the claims of mystery beasts. The DIF&W fields “dozens and dozens” of reports of big cats each year, according to Kemper, and they take each seriously. Ontario cougar mystery deepens CANOE Nanda Guha, the owner of Guha's Tiger and Lion Farm in Utterson, Ont., near where a cougar attacked and killed a family dog before police shot the big cat dead, said he's been fielding numerous phone calls and repeated visits from the police, but the ... |
http://karlshuker.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/the-missing-menagerie-creatures-cursed.html Following on from my two most recent ShukerNature blog posts (click here and here to view them), here is a third one that once again links a couple of my greatest interests – natural history and philately.
Thanks to my trio of definitive books documenting them (The Lost Ark, 1993; The New Zoo, 2002; and The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals, 2012), I am more readily associated with zoological arrivals and revivals than I am with extinct and endangered species.
So now, by way of contrast and compensation, this present ShukerNature blog post surveys a varied selection of the most famous and extraordinary residents of Nature’s missing menagerie of vanished creatures. Although they are represented nowadays only by lifeless museum specimens and a few faded photographs, their original beauty and grandeur is recaptured for all time in numerous modern-day works of art – including, as selected from my own personal collection of wildlife-themed postage stamps and presented here, an eyecatching gallery of the philatelic variety.
Read on...
The weather is much improved and it almost feels like a proper English summer here at last. Basically we are hoping that the weather will continue like this for a few more days so Graham can do the next bout of repairs that need to be done on the roof...
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/
On this day in 1983 the world's lowest natural temperature, −89.2 °C , was recorded at Vostok Station, Antartica.
And now the news:
Baby it's cold outside:
Posts
