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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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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

MARK RAINES: Interesting news item about mosquitoes

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FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES


What has Corinna's column of fortean bird news got to do with Cryptozoology?

Well, everything actually!

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 NEWS

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.
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    BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF





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    NEW EVIDENCE OF #BIGFOOT? The Bigfoot Research Team believes they have video and evidence to prove it. Check out the video... do you see it?
    DIMENSIONS: Bigfoot and the troubles with 'Dark Alley Syndrome'
    One of the most controversial elements of the vast majority of Bigfoot reports is the sheer size of the creatures reported. Seven to 8-foot-tall individuals ...
    Kentucky Residents Say They Have Evidence Of Bigfoot
    The Northern Kentucky Bigfoot Research Group says the streams, lakes, and dense forests of Kentucky are an ideal home for Bigfoot. Rodney Adams ...
    Bigfoot Sighting Near Sundance
    Do people think you're strange? Do you? Then you're on the right track. Top. stooge75. Post subject: Re: Bigfoot Sighting Near Sundance. Post ..
    Bigfoot of the Himalayas
    Vet Mark Evans explores the Himalayas – the birthplace of the Yeti.
    Bigfoot Exposed: An Anthropologist Examines America's Enduring Legend
    In Bigfoot Exposed, biological anthropologist and primate physiology specialist David J. Daegling objectively examines the northwest American myth ...

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    THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS SOMEWHAT PENSIVE

    The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
     
    I can't make up my mind about the new album by Morrissey. It is an intriguing collection of songs and sounds which alternately beguile and irritate. I will have to keep on playing it until I make up my mind. Why do I bother? Hey, that's just the kind of fellow I am. Today's butterfly news is that the second long tailed blue of the year has turned up. This time in Hampshire. One can only keep one's fingers crossed and hope that we have another late summer influx like we did last year. Sadly they continuously brood, and do not hibernate, so they will never get established here, even with such mild winters as we had last year.
     
    GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Gordon Giltrap - Heartsong
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/gonzo-track-of-day-gordon-giltrap.html
    THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_30.html
    Bassist explains why he keeps saying 'yes' to Yes
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/bassist-explains-why-he-keeps-saying.html
    A BLAST FROM CRYSTAL'S PAST (Four years late, but look what I found)
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/a-blast-from-crystals-past-four-years.html
    Yes makes a case for Rock Hall enshrinement
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/yes-makes-case-for-rock-hall.html
    Record Bin: The bizarre world of Captain Beefheart
    http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/record-bin-bizarre-world-of-captain.html
     
    The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#88) is available to read or download at www.gonzoweekly.com. It has Joey Molland, the last man standing of the mighty Badfinger on the front cover and an interview with him inside. It also includes an exclusive interview with the author of a new biography of The Waterboys, with an exclusive extract from the book. Yes fans will find a critique of the new album and a rundown of the extraordinary events that took place yesterday as Jon Anderson launched his new band. Elsewhere in the issue Doug Harr interviews the founding members of Brand X and Galahad release the cover art for their forthcoming EP.  There are also new shows from the wonderfully eccentric Jaki and Tim on their Submarine, and from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and from M Destiny (hopefully fully recovered from his recent illness) a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and mysterious clues (OK, no peculiar objects left by malefactors, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!
     
    Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
     
     
    All issues from #70 can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is power chaps, we have to share it!
     
    To make sure that you don't miss your copy of future issues make an old hippy a happy chappy and subscribe
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    As well as the Gonzo Weekly, there is a daily service called - wait for it - The Gonzo Daily, and you can subscribe for free HERE:
    http://eepurl.com/OvPez
     

    *  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 an orange kitten named after a song by Frank Zappa 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 kitten?
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    KARL SHUKER: The Deadly Dodu of Cameroon


    Karl Shuker cautiously seeks a highly belligerent grub-eating bigfoot-like entity from Cameroon known as the dodu.

    Read on...
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    NEWS FROM NOWHERE - WEDNESDAY

    ON THIS DAY IN 1956 - 
    The phrase "In God We Trust" was adopted as the U.S. national motto. 
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    • AND TO WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK...
    (Music that may have some relevance to items also on this page, or may just reflect my mood on the day)
    "I was sent here by a three foot halfwit in a wig"
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