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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, August 06, 2014

KARL SHUKER: Animal Grief and Mourning


Do creatures other than ourselves grieve and mourn? Karl Shuker investigates the remarkable world of animal emotions.

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NEWS FROM NOWHERE - WEDNESDAY

ON THIS DAY IN 1806 - 
The Holy Roman Empire went out of existence as Emperor Francis II abdicated. 
  • Newly discovered juvenile whale shark aggregation ...
  • UK's deep sea mountain life filmed
  • Making sense of scents: Mice can identify specific...
  • Bumblebees Able To Spot Which Flowers Offer Best R...
  • Tropical cuttlefish a model organism to study trav...
  • Bolivian golden bat revealed as 'new species'
  • The case of the missing mudpuppies USD biologist t...

  • Rare footage captured of tuatara hatching (w/ Vide...
    • 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)
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    Tuesday, August 05, 2014

    CFZtv: In which Saskia collects some hedgehogs

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    WW2014: Apra Books

    APRA BOOKS, are pleased to say that we will once again be attending the "Weird Weekend". Oddly, this will be our 15th. appearance at this rather peculiar annual event and we wish the CFZ and all those attending a fantastically WEIRD WEEKEND.

    Due to weight restrictions on the van, we can as usual only bring a limited selection of a few hundred books from our very extensive stock of several thousand (approx. 7000) pre-loved books relating to Alternative therapies, Cryptozoology, Divination, Earth Mysteries, Folklore, Forteana, Occultism, Psychic phenomena, Paganism, UFO's and Witchcraft, 

    If there are any titles visitors to the weird Weekend are particularly interested in obtaining, please e-mail me direct at syd_henley@yahoo.co.uk or through our web sites contact page at http://www.apra-books.co.uk , giving the title, author & any other known information, and we will gladly check our computerised stock records, let you know if we have the required item/s and bring them with us for collection at the event to save you  the postage costs.

    Please note, that we are also planning on starting to produce an occasional (perhaps quarterly) E-Mail  mail order catalogue in the near future and if you would like to receive copies as and when published, either request to be put on the list by e-mailing us at the above address, or by completing one of the request forms that will be available on our stand at the Weird Weekend.

    We look forward to meeting new and old friends over the course of the weekend.
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    BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF




    Bigfoot & baby videotaped on Independence Day
    Bigfoot & baby videotaped on Independence Day ~ An examination of the footage ... Bigfoot Captured on Video in Calgary ~ Stabilized,.

    Stabilized: The Bigfoot of Hanningfield Reservoir
    Adam Bird: Stabilized version of the footage taken of an alleged Bigfoot-type being in Hanningfield Resevoir Woods, Essex. Bigfoot's foot, hand ...

    'Finding Bigfoot': Two Kids, a Camera and a Bigfoot
    Did these kids really see a Bigfoot while out filming in the woods? Or did they stage an elaborate hoax?

    The Olympic Project Public Bigfoot Expedition - September 2014
    Have you ever wanted to go on a Bigfoot expedition with like-minded people? Well now's your chance. Derek Randles of The Olympic Project is ...




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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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    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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