CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: 05/10/13

WELCOME TO THE CFZ BLOG NETWORK: COME AND JOIN THE FUN

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...

Friday, May 10, 2013

DALE DRINNON: Chinese wildman, Frontiers of Anthropology, Benny's Blogs

New at the Frontiers of Anthropology:

http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/05/aztlan.html

http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-war-prone-tribe-migrated-out-of.html

http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-warrior-tribe-that-went-out-of.html

New at the Frontiers of Zoology:

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/05/chinese-wildman-from-big-trouble-in.html

New at Benny's Blog for Thelma Todd:

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/05/joan-crawford-and-pirates.html

Best Wishes, Dale D.

PATRICK BARKHAM WRITES

Dear butterfly friends,

If you enjoyed The Butterfly Isles, you may like Patrick Barkham's Guide to British Butterflies, a new butterfly identification DVD, out this month.

It is the work of TV producer and butterfly obsessive Bill Smith, who has spent two years roaming the country filming butterflies. I joined him last summer, and revisited many fantastic butterfly locations around the country.

The DVD is five hours of professionally-shot footage, with short films on all 58 mainland British species, and rare migrants too.

Watch some highlights here:
http://bit.ly/12rOHig

First review here:
http://bit.ly/11SAE6w

And you can buy it here!
http://www.greattakestv.com/

Many thanks and best wishes,
Patrick

CHINESE ANIMAL ABUSE

A bizarre bicycle race between a bear and two monkeys ended in a bloodbath after the bear toppled one of the primates from its velocipede and wolfed it down in front of a circus audience.

The incident happened at the annual 'Wild Animal Olympics' at an animal park in Shanghai and though costumed zoo staff attempted to beat the bear off the monkey with sticks, the mammal continued to attack the primate.

Campaigners claim the animal olympics is cruel and have called the animals "miserable" and victims of cruelty and abuse.

Read on...

MORE FROM THE CRYPTODANE

Beetle rediscovered in Denmark after 45 years

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 took the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.

THE GONZO BLOG DO DAH MAN DOESN'T KNOW

Yesterday was not a nice one for all sorts of reasons that I shall not go into. Hopefully today will be better. The weather is reasonably mild, but damp. The leaves are coming out at a rate of knots, and trees which were bare a week ago are now sporting pale green baby leaves. But no butterflies. I have hardly seen any this year, and am beginning to get worried that the dreadful spring we had will have dealt them a crushing blow.

The Gonzo Track of the Day is from The Dictators
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/gonzo-track-of-day-dictators-california.html

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_10.html

Mr Averell's press release
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/mr-averell-press-release.html

Completely off-topic but it amuses me, and today I need amusing
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/completetely-off-topic-but-it-amuses-me.html

Andy Thommen remembers his friend Paolo "Scandy" Scandella
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/andy-thommen-remembering-paolo-scandy.html

Jon Anderson on Hawaii Public Radio
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/jon-anderson-on-hawaii-public-radio.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?