THE MYSTERY LYNX PAPER IS FINALLY PUBLISHED (Story via TetZoo)

Ab4458 the Edwardian lynx. Aww, cute! Photo (c) Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.

For over 100 years, a potentially significant dead cat has been sat in storage in a British museum. Specifically, the specimen – the lynx Ab4458 – has been at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery ever since it was added to the collections there in February 1903, and what makes it significant is that it was shot dead after living wild in Devon, southern England. As revealed in a new paper published by Aberystwyth* University’s Max Blake and a team of colleagues (myself, Greger Larson, Charlotte King, Geoff Nowell, Manabu Sakamoto and Ross Barnett), the specimen represents a historic ‘British big cat’, though with ‘big cat’ being used very much in the vernacular sense, not the technical one (Blake et al. 2013).

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VIDEO: Witness Account, Findings and Bigfoot Sounds?

CRYPTOLINKS: Company insures against Nessie collision

A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting, usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me.

Company insures against Nessie collision Inverness Courier Company insures against Nessie collision. Jacobite Cruises has insured itself against a collision with Nessie. JACOBITE Cruises is in line for a six-figure pay out — but only if one of its boats is damaged by the Loch Ness Monster. The tourist cruise ... See all stories on this topic »

Inverness Courier

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.

• Florida Biologists Initiate Captive Breeding for E...
•      Adorable ducklings offer hope for the world's rare...
•      Falcon Family Shuts Down UK Cell Phone Tower
•      DEC: Salmonellosis affects Redpoll birds throughou...

DALE DRINNON: Sasquatch, Champ, Frontiers of Anthropology, Benny's Blogs

New at the Frontiers of Zoology:

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-set-of-sasquatch-family-tracks.html

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/04/champ-eyewitness-sketches.html

New at the Frontiers of Anthropology:

http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/04/origin-of-blue-eyes.html

http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/04/piri-reis-again.html

A Public Service Anouncement at Benny's blog for Thelma Todd:

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/04/national-suicide-prevention-week.html

And Jungle Girl comics at Benny's other blog, The Ominous Octopus Omnibus:

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/04/jann-of-jungle.html

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/04/waku-of-bantu.html

Best Wishes, Dale D.

THE GONZO BLOG DOO DAH MAN IS PLEASED

The saga of the garden pond trundles on. Somehow the new pond sprung a leak. We have now emptied it and are awaiting the arrival of a pond liner sometime today. Hopefully, therefore, we shall have a functioning pond by tomorrow night when the rescued goldfish shall be arriving. If not, we will get the empty five foot tank that used to hold the snapping turtle, ready as an interim measure. There is also a tankful of newts ready to go in (the newt tank is presently on the wall outside my study door). Both the newts and the goldfish were originally resident in the pond chez Helen, and have been fretting in temporary accommodation for several weeks whilst we wrestled with the problem of the leaky pond.

 

Our daily visit to the world of Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_25.html

 

Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from Fairport Convention
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/gonzo-track-of-day-fairport-convention.html

 

Eric Burdon Tour Dates
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/eric-burdon-tour-dates.html

 

Hawkwaster review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/hawkwind-plus-easter-equals-hawkeaster.html

 

John Shuttleworth at the Beeb
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/john-shuttleworth-at-beeb.html

 

Steve Howe talks about Jon Davison
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/link-yes-steve-howe-on-jon-davison.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 2008 Humphrey Lyttelton jazz musician, ISIHG chairman and one of the instigators of the world's most widely played strategy games, Mornington Crescent, died.

And now the news:

Ancient creature mixed human, apelike traits

Colombia: Two Killed And 17 Hurt In Bullfight

Threat to species highlighted

Endangered devils breeding on Maria Island

Human Stem Cells Injected In Mice Restore Memory, ...

South Africa declares Prince Edward Islands as a v...

Neural Activity in Bats Measured In-Flight

Sea Lion Strandings Climb, Scientists Still Stumpe...

Mornington Crescent in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVszcAgsBxs