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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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Friday, April 12, 2013

SHERI MYLER THE CFZ INTERN: Day Six


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...

Another day, another crack at Eberhart. We’ve got most of the way through “C” totally finished, pictures, formatting and all. I did some of this on my own, while Jon got on with other, more pressing, things, such as a fag break, but the majority was collaborative.

There was also a trip out in an attempt to locate some frogspawn. There is a theory that the January frogspawn, being genetically inferior, is supposed to die and, in doing so, leaves more nutrients in place for the later lot of frogspawn. This is potentially the reason that all the frogspawn that the CFZ has attempted to rescue in January always dies.

While we didn’t actually manage to find any frogspawn, we did see the most amazing rainbow that I have ever seen. It was the full rainbow, rather than just one end, and was of the brightest of colours. Living in a city, there is more pollution and buildings in the way of things like this.

There were considerably less moths about on the cat hunt. However, tonight did up the ante a little with a rat, a vole and finally another badger. Also, Jon did seem to be hallucinating frogs, as he pointed out several that nobody else saw. Perhaps last night’s amphibian antics were still playing on his mind.

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