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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, August 11, 2013

SHERI THE CFZ INTERN: Day 2 – Friday

The sun was high above us by the time I eventually arose from my pit around noon. After about an hour, a cuppa and some chocolate cereal (and some perhaps considerable time faffing about on my phone) I was ready for action.

The animal rounds were conducted by Richard and I during which I became acquainted with the newer animals here at the CFZ, e.g. the semi-albino crow and the Japanese quails. I saw how the pond was completed since my last visit as well as how the conservatory repairs are coming along. Changing the water in the amphiuma tank took quite a while, partially because the process by which we did it was slightly made up as we went along.

Following this and a short break a group of us went out to the woods and filmed the introductory film for the Weird Weekend. The key role in this production was a giant penguin with an AK47. In accordance with tradition, there was also some footage of the village shop.

During the evening I managed to get in some more reading after freeing myself from the kittens. There was also some further discussion on my personal research project, which seems to have lead to a viable idea, as well as another lecture on cryptozoology. This lecture included the idea that there are cryptids everywhere in the world. We watched a couple of episodes of The Future is Wild, stopping periodically to comment on the cryptozoological significance of various things said. We also had a rather lovely fish supper. Yum.

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