CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: 06/03/15

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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...

Wednesday, June 03, 2015

CRYPTOLINK: Residents stumped by animal roaming around neighborhood

A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me.

Another mangy canid I think. It appears to be a male and there are no visible 'pouches'

http://www.koco.com/news/residents-stumped-by-animal-roaming-around-neighborhood/33344008

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

Government cover up of Bigfoot and possibly why

CryptoSightings

Whether or not the government is covering up the fact that Bigfoot exists has long been a hot topic of debate in and around the Bigfoot community

Seeking Sasquatch: Bigfoot looms large in Willow Creek

San Jose Mercury News

There are three Bigfoot statues and two Bigfoot murals -- including an epic rendering more than a hundred feet long that threatens to engulf the local

AMAZING CLEAR VIDEO FOOTAGE- Viral Video Of New Bigfoot Sighting In Russia ⋆ UFP NEWS

Universal Free Press

A group of Russians claim to have captured the best footage of Bigfoot. The adventurers spotted what they described as a hairy bear-sized humanoid

Did you know that NatGeo did a special on the Idaho Bigfoot footage?

Bigfoot Evidence

The Mink Creek footage. The alleged Bigfoot footage was uploaded by an Idaho student in March 2012 and caught the attention of Dr. Jeff Meldrum of ...

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.

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.

NEWSLINK: Is Britain Ready for the Return of the B...

NEWSLINK: Monk mauled by big cat

NEWSLINK: UK: Panther-type Big Cat Spotted Climbin...

THE GONZO BLOG DOO DAH MAN MAY WELL BE

The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday

www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html

A chance observation led Luigi Galvani (1737-98) to discover animal electricity in 1871. When the nerve of a frog that Galvani's wife was preparing for soup was accidentally touched with a knife a muscle contraction occurred despite the frog not being connected to an electrical machine. Galvani investigated the cause and discovered contractions were excited when two different metals touched.

http://www.theiet.org/resources/library/archives/featured/galvani.cfm

Why am I telling you this? Because yesterday I found out how the frog might have felt when I went to the hospital for Electromyography (EMG). This is an electrodiagnostic medicine technique for evaluating and recording the electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles, and involved being given a series of small electric shocks and seeing how froglike I twitched. I joked that all I needed was an orange jumpsuit and I could be in Guantanamo Bay, and the doctor performing the operation tried not to laugh.

It was surprisingly tiring, so I came home and immediately fell asleep. So if you were one of the people who was supposed to get something from me yesterday afternoon, now you know why you didn't get it.

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_3.html
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Jean-Philippe Rykiel
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/the-gonzo-track-of-day-jean-philippe.html
HACKETT: GABRIEL AND I WERE BOTH IN HELL
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/hackett-gabriel-and-i-were-both-in-hell.html
Karnataka review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/karnataka-review.html
YES: 2015 - The Year For Steve Howe Fans
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/yes-2015-year-for-steve-howe-fans.html

The Gonzo Weekly #132
www.gonzoweekly.com

Daevid Allen, Gong, Blancmange, Grateful Dead, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!

The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#132) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has Daevid Allen on the front cover together with a thirteen page account, written by the man himself, of one of his last excursions outside Australia. He sent it to us for the blog three years ago, and when I had posted it I promptly forgot all about it....until now. There is a look at Blancmange live with some excellent pictures by Doug, Jon examines a book about The Grateful Dead, and muses on an exciting new direction in music retail, Thom waxes all poetical like, whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column. Xtul shudders towards a climax, and there is a radio show from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and two from theose jolly nice chaps at Strange Fruit. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antichinuses trying to snooze (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials having difficulty getting to sleep, 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!!!

This issue features:
David Crosby, Garry Johnson,Eric Clapton, Noel Gallagher, Steve Hackett, Genetics, Marillion, Edison's Children, System 7, Steve Hillage, Karnataka, Friday Night Progressive, Sam Zaman, Mick Abrahams & Sharon Watson, Tommy James, Hugh Hopper, Third Ear Band, WMWS, David Peel, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Eliza Carthy & Jim Moray,The Boomtown Rats, Midlake, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Yes, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Wyrd, Martin Eve, Xtul, Elvis, onkees, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Pink Floyd, Ozzy Osbourne, Keith Richards, FängörN

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!

You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/

* 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/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit…

* 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 55 who - together with an infantile orange cat 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 infantile orange cat?

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Jonathan Downes,
Director: Centre for Fortean Zoology
Director: CFZ Publishing Group
Editor: Animals & Men
Editor: Gonzo Weekly magazine
Editor: Still on the track
Editor: CFZ Blog Network
Editor: Gonzo Daily (Music and More)
Presenter: On the Track (Of Unknown Animals)

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