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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...

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Friday, January 10, 2014

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. 











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TODAY'S BIG CAT ROUND UP



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 are publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. 

 The worldwide mystery cat phenomenon (or group of phenomena, if we are to be more accurate) is not JUST about cryptozoology. At its most basic level it is about the relationship between our species and various species of larger cat. That is why sometimes you will read stories here that appear to have nothing to do with cryptozoology but have everything to do with human/big cat interaction. As committed Forteans, we believe that until we understand the nature of these interactions, we have no hope of understanding the truth that we are seeking. 
  • VIDEO: Wild Cat Sightings Satara Webcam 2010
  • VIDEO: Hunting big cats in the UK
  • VIDEO: Big cat Britain: Truth or Tail?
  • VIDEO: Long-tailed Bobcat?
  • VIDEO: Rare Lynx sighting in Colorado
  • US SIGHTINGS: Pair of Lynx spotted in Colorado's S...
  • VIDEO: CANADIAN LYNX - Amazing Animal Species
  • VIDEO: Bobcat vs Python 02, Time Lapse Speed x2
  • UK SIGHTINGS: Eleven big cat sightings reported to...
  • AUSTRALIA SIGHTINGS: Big cat mystery latest in sta...
  • NEWSLINK: Panna Tiger Transplant Has Cub | Big Cat...
  • NEWSLINK: Indictment: Men made big cats easier to ...
  • NEWSLINK: India tiger kills four people in 12 days...
  • NEWSLINK: Outfitters indicted in alleged big-cat s...

  • NEWSLINK: Lions and tigers at the Big Cat Sanctuar...
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    DALE DRINNON: Giant squid, what is real?, Champ, Pygmy elephants


  • "Giant Squid in California" Photo
  • Who decides what is real? Entire report
  • Champ compilation
  • Pygmy Elephants - the book
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    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:
    From CFZ Australia:
    From CFZ-USA:
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    THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IN THE SITTING ROOM

    The Gonzo Daily - Friday
     
    Despite everything (and there is a lot to be despite about) I am in a very good mood today. The broadband was off most of yesterday and is merely crawling along at an arthritic snail's pace today, but I am still managing to do stuff and vaguely making headway. Corinna will be furnishing the chubby frog's new vivarium today, and so finally, after about eighteen months, he will have a proper home and the small plastic faunabox in which he has lived quite happily since the summer of 2012 can be redeployed. I am working hard on this weekend's Gonzo Weekly, and am really getting into the swing of it. For those of you interested, it contains an interview with Don Falcone from Spirits Burning, news about Clepsydra, Steve Ignorant's Slice of Life, Galahad, and more and articles on Cat Stevens and Krautfolk. Make sure you get this week's issue for free by subscribing today.
     
     
    Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_10.html
     
     
    Rick Wakeman: 'Punk was a revolution ... things had to change'
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/rick-wakeman-punk-was-revolution-things.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: www.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 54 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?
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    CFZ PEOPLE: Emily Taylor



    Happy Birthday, baby
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    OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

    http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

     On this day in 1927 Fritz Lang's ground-breaking sci-fi film Metropolis was released.
    And now the news:
  • UK faces food security catastrophe as honeybee num...
  • Elephant Shark Genome Decoded: New Insights Gained...
  • Butterflies in your house this winter?
  • Lions Face Extinction in West Africa
  • Major tiger traders arrested in Indonesia
  • Lizard Study Supports Darwin's Idea That Predator-...
  • Conjoined grey whale calves found in Mexico

  • Fish flaunt neon glow

    •  What remains of Metropolis (This is why we can't have nice things at least almost all of M, which is an even better film than Metropolis, has been found and restored) :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Qk7HPMvuA
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