ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

News and stories from the remoter fringes of the CFZ blogosphere...

From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:

• A Q&A of the Monster Kind — Nick is interviewed by CFZ Australia...
• Reviewing the CFZ Yearbook — Werewolves, the Essex lion and more...

From CFZ Australia:

• The Murray Bridge Bunyip — A cryptozoological tourist attraction...
• 1939 'bunyip' sighting had district agog — A strange creature in the Brisbane River...
• Concert fundraiser for endangered devils — Tasmanian Devil Awareness Shows...
• Tassie devils breeding on Maria Island — New births in a colony of healthy devils...
• Felled NSW forest confuses koalas — Koalas left homeless by loggers...
• Meet the Cryptozoologist: Nick Redfern — As mentioned earlier...

From CFZ Canada:

• Tales of Tetrapods — Reptilian encounters of the 1970s...

CFZ CANADA: Tales of Tetrapods

A Canadian group has listed the story below on their Facebook page and some of the comments made me wonder if this is a cryptid or an alien.  Often when  we hear the word “Reptilian” we think of shape-shifting aliens in sci-fi stories.  David Icke, a conspiracy theorist, has even claimed that many of the world leaders are, or are possessed by, reptilians. 

Read on...

MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: A TIGER IN HONG KONG?

It`s been a long time since any remotely genuine case of a tiger in Hong Kong has occurred (since the 1960s)  but a couple of weeks back, a scare in the Tai Po area of the former colony of Britain briefly stirred interest in the Hong Kong media. Any definite evidence (and this is not) would be remarkable indeed as the surviving number of South China tigers in the wild could probably be counted by less than the number of fingers of one human hand and that`s being optimistic.

The link below was found by myself on the Hong Kong Wildlife.net Forum and shows some scientist types measuring spoor and a small-ish mammal, very unclear, moving around in undergrowth.  

http://news.on.cc/cnt/news/20130407/bkn-20130407005520847-0407_00822_001.html

Dr Devo

DALE DRINNON: Neanderthals, Big Fish, Plesiosaur

New at Frontiers of Zoology:

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/04/neanderthal-big-eyes-caused-demise.html
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/04/largest-fish-ever-caught-in-arizona-is.html
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-alvin-plesiosaur.html

 

Best Wishes, Dale D.

TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS ROUNDUP

The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. In September 2012 Emma Osborne decided that the Mystery Cat Study Group really deserved a blog of its own within the CFZ Blog Network.



FEATURELINK: The return of the native

FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES

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.

• Wrong kind of bread gives wardens the bird: Park's...
•      Student Tracks Asian Bird's Migration Patterns; Re...
•      Dinosaur Egg Study Supports Evolutionary Link Betw...
•      Mediterranean birds moving to Runcorn and Widnes w...

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HOPS

Once again the tranquility of my morning was shattered by a bloke called Rangit trying to sell me double glazing. This is the same bloke three days running. I was polite on Saturday and Sunday, but this morning I informed him that if he telephoned me again I would stake him out on an ant hill and have him eaten alive by landcrabs. I don't have either an ant hill or any landcrabs, nor do I know where I could obtain either in sufficient quantities, but I hope that Rangit does not know that. Apart from that I am having a very good day. My blood sugar is down, and I have found that 'Jazz from Hell' by Frank Zappa is now on Spotify. Bliss...

 

Our daily visit to the world of Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_22.html

 

Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from Daevid Allen and Kramer
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/gonzo-track-of-day-daevid-allen-kramer.html

 

A review of Zenit
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/zenit-review_21.html

 

A review of The Green Violinist
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-green-violinist-reviewed.html

 

The Hawkwind Light Orchestra
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/hawkwind-light-orchestra-review.html

 

Jon looks at the new Judge Smith CD
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/good-morning-judge.html

 

*  The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at  jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...

*  The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html

 

* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are not responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest guv!

*  Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and a not very small orange kitten (who isn't) puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cats?

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

Yesterday’s News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1983 the German magazine Der Stern claimed the diaries of Adolph Hitler had been found. The diaries turned out to be forgeries, which shouldn't come as much of a surprise as no man, outside of the imagination of Sue Townsend, would ever bother to write a diary.

And now the news:

Evolutionary History of Lizards and Snakes Reconst...

Getting Under the Shell of the Turtle Genome - via...

Tongue-Eating Louse Found In Supermarket Fish Frea...

Fish DNA Makes Limbs Sprout in Mice

West coast whales, dolphins and sharks to be surve...

Bear Baiting May Put Hunting Dogs at Risk from Wol...

Learned Helplessness in Flies and the Roots of Dep...

Study of Pumas in Santa Cruz Mountains Documents I...

A quick summary of the Hitler Diary hoax:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2CPmiIdgtU