Climate, not dingoes, killed the thylacine on mainland Australia
DNA sequencing finds the Tasmanian tiger fell victim to
climate change, rather than hunting or predation. Cheryl Jones
reports.
Friday, September 29, 2017
INTRODUCING OLIVIA
Hi guys,
For those of you who don’t know me, I am Olivia: step-daughter of, and secretary to, Centre for Fortean Zoology director Jon Downes. The Centre for Fortean Zoology is the English-speaking world’s largest mystery animal research group: a not-for-profit organisation operating across the world. I will be popping up on your screens every now and then to tell you about the latest activities of the CFZ, and how you can get involved.
For starters, we have re-launched our monthly webTV show: On The Track (of Unknown Animals) and you can see the two latest episodes by following these links:
You can also:
Check out the CFZ website (www.cfz.org.uk)
Check out the daily blogs (https://forteanzoology.blogspot.co.uk/)
Check out our quarterly magazine (http://cfzresources.com/publishing/animals-men/)
Check out the daily blogs (https://forteanzoology.blogspot.co.uk/)
Check out our quarterly magazine (http://cfzresources.com/publishing/animals-men/)
And guess what? They are all free. The CFZ is not about money and never will be (although any donations are gratefully received!).
Olivia
TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS
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: Animal Planet presents ‘Mission Big Cat’...
NEWSLINK: People in Kent have phoned the police ov...
NEWSLINK: Mountain lion spotted near hikers in Gri...
NEWSLINK: Interacting with big cats therapeutic fo...
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.
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN MAKES PECULIAR NOISES. BUT THEN AGAIN WHAT'S NEW?
The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
And so we come to the end of another week, and just as happened last week,
it truly seems that the world is weirder now than it was seven days ago. I know
that I bang on about it quite a lot, but it truly feels like the Justified
Ancients of Mu Mu were on the nail when they welcomed us all to the dark ages
last month. The world does seem to be slipping into a very peculiar place much
faster than one would have thought possible even a year ago.
Ever since I read ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’ by Walter Miller Jr. the idea
for an impending dark age has been very lodged in my consciousness, and so
Messrs, Drummond and Cauty only underlined what I have been thinking for years.
But then again, they always did. And, what the rest of us have to do, is more
and more self evident.
Most of us cannot hope to influence events on the national or world stage.
Our countries are largely run by idiots, and self-serving lunatics who have
agendas of their own, which have nothing at all to do with making the lives of
the rest of us any better. Therefore, what we must do is to look after each
other. This week I wrote about the death of an old friend of mine, and was very
touched to receive several emails from relative strangers commiserating with me.
Another acquaintance of mine lost her mother very suddenly a week or so back,
and on twitter yesterday posted how lucky she felt to be surrounded by so many
sweet and supportive friends, many of whom she didn’t even I know. These are
examples of what we need to do.
The world may be going to hell in a hand basket, but if we all treat each
other like decent human beings, rather than with suspicion and bitterness,
things are going to work out better for the human race than anybody could
possibly imagine looking at the world’s situation as it is now. Basically, boys
and girls, all you need is love! But I think somebody else said that a long time
ago.
Forgive me for banging on about our webTV show, but it matters a lot to me,
and I would be grateful for an many people as possible to see it, and spread the
tidings of it far and wide:
But now, here is the news:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Man - Live at the Mar...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
COMING THIS WEEKEND
JACKIE LEE CANADIAN REVIEW
EXTREMES REVIEW
and from earlier in the week, but atill important:
Hurricane Irma Relief Fundraiser with Patrick Mora...
Gonzo Weekly #253
THE SENSORIUM SUPERSTARS ISSUE
In which we meet the very legendary Dana Gillespie, Alan goes to the Hapi
Festival, Richard presents part one of a short series on Steve Kimock, Greg
remembers seeing Gentle Giant back in the day, Graham writes about Hawkwind,and
we send Sensorium Girliebox to a desert island!And is there more? You can bet
your pondohs there is. And it is all free/buckshee/gratis. There may not be such
a thing as a free lunch, but there is a truly free magazine!
Wooooot!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Fruit, and Friday
Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy
Weard, C J Stone, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is
also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and common planigales
who have cooked some stews (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have
been culinarily creative, 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:
Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Biggles, Richard Gordon, Gerald Durrell, Yoko
Ono, Bruce Springsteen, 2017 Progressive Music Awards, Gorillaz, Damon Albarn,
Morrissey, Roger Waters, Bob Dylan, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive,
Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, John Everett Sandlin Jr., Laudir Soares de
Oliveira, Harold "Harry" Dean Stanton, Violet Brown (nee Mosse), Wiarton Willie,
Ameer Isah Hassan (aka Lil Ameer), Ben Dorcy, Mary Hopkin, Man, Arthur Brown,
Tony Ashton and Jon Lord, Martin Springett, Third Ear Band, Benjamin Britten,
Dana Gillespie, Alan Dearling, Hapi Festival, Asylum Seekers, Daniel Wakeford,
Big Brother Soul, Mike Pender's Searchers, The Fab Beatles, the Animals and
friends, Forever Queen, Limehouse Lizzie, Fleetingwood Mac, From the Jam, Iron
Tyger, Big Noise Samba Band, Greg Jarrells, Gentle Giant, Richard Foreman, Steve
Kimock, Kev Rowland, Lightning Strikes, Afterbirth, Beastmaker, Ohio Knife,
Opeth, Forever Still, Pelander, Midnight Oil, Sensorium Girliebox, Mr Biffo, Roy
Weard, Hawkwind, Nicki Minaj, ABBA, Neil Nixon, Easy Star All Stars
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 252 (Cropredy)
Issue 251 (Scott Walker)
Issue 250 (Jamms)
Issue 249 (Bill Bruford)
Issue 248 (The Selecter)
Issue 247 (Don Airey)
Issue 246 (Steve Hackett)
Issue 244-5 (Summer Special)
Issue 243 (Galahad)
Issue 242 (Steve Miller Band)
Issue 241 (Carol Hodge and Steve Ignorant)
Issue 240 (Midsummer Madness)
Issue 239 (Miss Peach)
Issue 238 (Hawkwind)
Issue 237 (Hawkwind)
Issue 236 (Manchester)
Issue 235 (Jon Anderson)
Issue 234 (Al Atkins)
Issue 233 (Richard Strange)
Issue 232 (Roy Weard)
Issue 231 (Allan Holdsworth)
Issue 230 (Curtis Womack)
Issue 229 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)
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:
SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock
journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos
please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.
* 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.co.uk
* 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 58 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile
orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two half grown kittens, one
totally coincidentally named after one of the Manson Family, purely because she
squeaks, puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown
cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish. 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 Archie and the Cats?
NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Friday/Saturday
ON THIS DAY IN - 1984 - Irish officials announced that they had intercepted the Marita Anne carrying seven tons of U.S.-purchased weapons. The weapons were intended for the Irish Republican Army.
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
Rhino horn smuggled as jewellery
Size matters when it comes to extinction risk
Farewell, Basi: World's Oldest Captive Panda Dies ...
Tool-wielding monkeys push local shellfish to edge...
Sacrificial virgin spiders let their nieces eat th...
Ancient amphibian had mouthful of teeth ready to g...
What happens to Rex and Kitty after a natural disa...
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
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.