ISSUE 50 OF A&M HAS BEEN MAILED OUT TO UK READERS.

Australia and USA/Canada will be arranged shortly. European posts will probably be next week. If you live in the UK, and have NOT received one that you feel that you should have, please email me...

POULTRY ANTICS (courtesy Richard F)

NEW GUINEA THYLACINES

I posted this a while back, but apparently I screwed up the link, so here it is again.

Many people still believe the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) survives in the wilds of Tasmania, even though the species was declared extinct over eighty years ago. Sightings and reports of the elusive carnivorous marsupial, which was the top predator on the island, pop-up almost as frequently as those of Bigfoot in North America, but to date no definitive evidence has emerged of its survival. Yet, a noted cryptozoologist (one who searches for hidden animals), Dr. Karl Shuker,wrote recentlythat tiger hunters should perhaps turn their attention to a different island: New Guinea.

The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine, once populated much of Tasmanian and mainland Australia—where it is also still searched for—but few know that the animal was present on New Guinea as well. Its prehistoric presence there first came to light in 1960 when archeologists discovered the lower jaw of a Tasmanian tiger.

"Further confirmed fossil remains, dating at over 2 million years old, have subsequently been found on New Guinea; and also in later years, unconfirmed sightings of thylacine-like beasts have been reported from both Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Irian Jaya (the western, Indonesian half of New Guinea)," Shuker told mongabay.com.


A specimen of the Tasmanian tiger in the Natural History Museum at Oslo, Norway. Photo by: L. Shyamal.

While Tasmanian tigers are believed to have died out in New Guinea at the end of the Pleistocene, Shuker believes there's a chance a population still survives on the mountainous island, which contains some of the world's least-explored terrestrial habitats.

"New Guinea, especially Irian Jaya, is far less well-explored than either Tasmania or mainland Australia, as confirmed for instance by recent expeditions to Irian Jaya's Foja Mountains, where several new and potentially new species were discovered, including a giant rat, a tiny wallaby, and a new honeyeater," Shuker says. "Consequently, there is a much greater chance of zoological novelties turning up here than elsewhere within the thylacine's former distribution range, and one such novelty may be the thylacine itself."

Read on...

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.

• N.Z. Officials Urge Hunt for ‘Angry Birds’ in Auck...
•      Rare chooks in quarantine face death over single c...
•      Gators lurk in P'town
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DALE DRINNON: Giant bat, another iceman, Benny's Blogs

New at the Frontiers of Zoology:

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/07/another-giant-bat-photo.html

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/07/bigfoot-evidence-another-minnesota.html

 

New on Benny's Blog for Thelma Todd:

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/07/tribute-to-carole-landis-by-costar.html

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/07/hollywood-victory-caravan-in-superman.html

 

New on Benny's Other Blog, The Ominous Octopus Omnibus:

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/07/dick-tracy-meets-headache-pt-ii.html

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/07/first-fanny-zilch-bankers-daughter.html

 

Best Wishes, Dale D.

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN PLAYS CATCH UP

So we are back in Devon. Our friends Richie and Naomi who run the CFZ USA are here for a few days, which is lovely. But I must say that the house is very quiet without mother. Things will start getting back to normal by the end of the week, bt please forgive me if I am somewhat elusive for the next few days.

 

So... What's new on the Gonzo Daily?
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com

 

Merrell Fankhauser Revisits Hendrix's 'Rainbow Bridge' in New Documentary
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/merrell-fankhauser-revisits-hendrixs.html

 

One of my favourite songstrels (Helen McCookerybook) in one of my favourite music magazines (Louder than War)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/helen-in-louder-than-war.html

 

Yes wows Phoenix in going for the three (Photos)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/yes-wows-phoenix-in-going-for-three.html

 

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_15.html

 

Judy Dyble review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/judy-dyble-review.html

 

Today's Track of the Day is from The Magick Brothers
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/gonzo-track-of-day-daevid-allenmagick.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 two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange) 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 cat?

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

Oll is away, so for todayYesterday's News Today is done by Wally the Comedy Rhinoceros. He is a stand up comedian of some renown. Here is one of his rhino-related jokes.

Knock Knock

Who's there

I'm not sure. I have a personality disorder

Ha Ha that was funny. Sidesplitting. Yes. Ha! Now for the news...

Reef Parasites: Predator or Scapegoat

Wildlife group wants Bel Air to stop turtle derby,...

North Museum offers chance to see bees at work, up...

Dogs trained to detect diabetes

Solitary Lemurs Avoid Danger With a Little Help fr...

Plight of five hunters who have been stuck up a tr...

Pod of Killer whales rescued after stranding in Au...

And now for a happy tune that you can whistle while you work: