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Best Wishes, Dale D.
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...
What a Day!! I was up bright and early and
feeling relatively sane, and came downstairs with a cheerful spring in my step!
OK that last line is a lie; I was shuffling along like an old git propped up on
my walking stick as ever, but I had a conceptual spring in my step. I switched
on my computer and went online, and managed to download about 2/3 of my emails
before the internet connection conked out. It has been intermittent all day
until now, but the peculiar thing is that when we telephoned BT, they had no
knowledge of the outages. We therefore assumed it was all down to our fairly
ropey equipment, but throughout the day we have been receiving news that
everyone that we have spoken to in North Devon, and other folk across the
country, even as far abroad as Rob Ayling up in the frozen north have told me
that they have also had patchy internet access. How about you guys out in
readersville?
In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that - whereas the study of out of place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot, or lake monsters - it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean Zoologist to be interested in. So, after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo, Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.