CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: 08/12/14

Jon Downes · at 2:32 PM

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Tony Black introducing film footage of one of the last Tasmanian tigers.

AS a journalist in Inverness, former Highland News reporter Tony Black did his fair share of Nessie stories.

When he moved to Australia, he found himself writing about another mysterious creature, the inspiration behind his newly published novel The Last Tiger.

Already an established and acclaimed crime writer, The Last Tiger takes Black into new territory with his first historical novel.

Set in Tasmania in the early 20th century, its hero, young Lithuanian immigrant Myko, develops a fascination with the island’s top predator, the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine, which is being hunted to extinction by the island’s settlers — including Myko’s own father.

The last known Tassie tiger died in captivity in Tasmania’s Hobart zoo in 1936.

However, when Australian-born Black returned to the country of his birth to work for a small rural paper, he soon found not everyone is convinced the Tassie tiger is no more, even in mainland Australia where the animal is reckoned to have died some 2000 years ago.

Working as a reporter, Black took a call from someone who claimed to have captured footage of a tiger near the outskirts of suburban Melbourne.

"He sent the footage over and it clearly wasn’t a dog or a panther," Black said.

"The only way I can describe it is that it’s almost like a quadruped kangaroo with the head of a dog.

Read on..

Jon Downes · at 1:32 PM

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Jon Downes · at 12:34 PM

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.

Jon Downes · at 11:35 AM

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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Jon Downes · at 11:28 AM

The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday

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I had every intention of going to bed last night. I decided that Mother and I would cook our evening meal before I did so. Mother was chopping onions while I was in the sitting room fielding enormous numbers of telephone calls. I never drink alcohol this week, doing my best to remain sober and healthy so as to deal with the stresses and strains of organising the biggest Fortean Zoological conference in the UK. However one of my telephone calls was interrupted by a Godalmighty row from the kitchen. Someone unexpected was coming in through the back door. Prudence and Archie, suspecting a malefactor, rushed into the kitchen barking furiously and intending to rend said malefactor limb from limb. The malefactor turned out not to be a malefactor, but Davey "Geordie Dave" Curtis clutching a bag full of cans of broon ale. So my good intentions were all for naught and I have a hangover this morning.

In an undisclosed location near Swanage in Dorset a number of European map butterflies (Araschnia levana) have been seen and photographed. This is not a native species to the UK, and is non migratory, but considering the fact that they are currently advancing their range in Europe, and the excellent summer we have had they could be the offspring of a vagrant female earlier in the year, rather than just having been released by a well meaning idiot. If they are natural vagrants has the UK got another new butterfly species in the offing? This species was deliberately introduced in 1912 when the butterfly became established in the Forest of Dean in Monmouthshire, and Symond’s Yat in Herefordshire. The well-known entomologist A.B. Farn was so opposed to the deliberate introduction of a foreign species that, in 1914, he deliberately collected and destroyed every individual he could find. However, the ultimate demise of the colonies is believed to be the result of additional (and unknown) factors. One specimen was recorded in 1982 but apart from that these are the first known British specimens. Cop a load of this: http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7848

THOSE WE HAVE LOST: Robin Williams (1951-2014)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/08/those-we-have-lost-robin-williams-1951.html
Steve Hillage US review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/08/steve-hillage-us-review.html
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_12.html
Yes revives the sounds of two beloved albums
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/08/yes-revives-sounds-of-two-beloved-albums.html
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Eric Burdon and The Animals - 'When I was Young'
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/08/gonzo-track-of-day-eric-burdon-and.html
Joey Molland review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/08/joey-molland-review_12.html

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