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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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Sunday, April 14, 2013

SHERI THE CFZ INTERN: The Last Day


Sheri Myler, our student who is doing a series of placements with us over the next year or so is back for her second stint. Once again, I am putting her to work and she will be blogging each day about her time here...


My last day at the CFZ was fairly uneventful. We got quite a way through the Eberhart book, for which, I tried to insist on pictures that made the creatures look cute rather than scary. My attempts were only somewhat successful.

This work was broken up only by the occasional wander into the garden to look at review the progress of the hole being dug for the pond, by Matt and Jess. There were many threats from Jon to throw each of us in into it.

We finished early today so that I could get everything ready for a day’s travel back up to York tomorrow, which, by the way, is scheduled to take about seven and a half hours. Finishing early means no cat hunt, so it will be several months before I get to go on another one.
During my previous trip down, last October, it was agreed all round that I fitted in surprisingly well to a rather odd situation. Over this last week, I have assimilated even further and have been told that I am now part of the CFZ family, which I feel really is the case. What fitting into such a strange place says about me exactly,  remains to be seen. 

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