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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, October 29, 2014

NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Wednesday

ON THIS DAY IN 1975 - Joan Baez became a member of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue. 

  • 70,000-Year-Old Mammoth Skeleton Uncovered in Idah...
  • Giant tortoises gain a foothold on a Galapagos isl...
  • Norway to remove seal trade subsidies
  • First Great British Bee Count reveals allotments m...
  • US Regulators Move To List African Lions As A Thre...

  • Indian poachers threaten lesser-known animals

    • 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, October 28, 2014

    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: For Bhutan, it Takes a Community to Save...
  • NEWSLINK: Tiger not far from Lucknow
  • NEWSLINK: 4-year-old lion electrocuted near Mahuva...
  • US SIGHTINGS: Family of mountain lions captured on...
  • NEWSLINK: Tiger alert in Lucknow follows pugmarks ...
  • US SIGHTINGS: Cougar reported in Washington County...


  • NEWSLINK: US Regulators Move To List African Lions...
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    THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS A LITTLE UNHINGED

    The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
    www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html
    And so another day begins. Tamara has just arrived and she has a long day of aviary cleaning and tortoise weighing ahead of her. I finally got my new glasses yesterday from the Tesco opticians in Barnstaple, and - as we were in Tesco - Corinna and I did some shopping. As Corinna was in the queue at the checkout I went over to the waiting area, tripped and fell. My mobility is so crappy these days that I am afraid the day will shortly be here when I have to have a wheelchair in public. Sad but true.
    I really liked much of the first album by the Ting Tings about five years ago, although the follow-up was disappointing. The third album was released yesterday, and I so pent last night listening to it on Spotify whilst I attempted to write deathless prose. God it is awful! I hate to say so, but I can find no redeeming characteristics whatsoever. The inventive spark that made the first album so engaging has been replaced by layers of anodyne Protools funk. The witty and sassy lyrics of the first album are now replaced by such dull platitudes that, writing this the next morning, I can't remember any of them. The album apparently took months to make in Ibitha. Martin, Marianne and I could have done the same thing in a weekend at my place. No wonder the music business is disappearing up its own arse!
    Tommy James, Jon Anderson, Yes, Hawkwind, Scott Walker, Queen, Merrell Fankhauser and Daevid Allen fans had better look out! The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#101) is now available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/.
    It has Tommy James on the cover, and features an interview with him about his life, work, political campaigning back in the 1960s and what it was like having a manager with more than a few links to the Mafia. But there's more! There is a message from Daevid Allen, and Merrell Fankhauser responds to some strange signals off the Malibu coast. ET? One never knows. Doug Harr critiques the new Queen DVD, we send Thom the World Poet to a Desert Island, and Jon discusses the new Scott Walker/Sunn o))) collaboration and much to his surprise finds that it is Scott's best work for decades. Carl Portman is our guest book reviewer, and he takes a look at the new Ozzy Osbourne biography. There are also new shows from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the massively talented Jaki and Tim are back with their submarine and Maisie the cow. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and turtles having a snooze (OK, no soporific chelonians, 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!
    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/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 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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    BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



    Bigfoot Interviewed in Oklahoma
    During this local news coverage of the Honobia Bigfoot Festival, not only did they speak with Dr. Meldrum, but they also interviewed bigfoot himself

    Bigfoot Sighting Reported at Lake Brownwood
    Bigfoot stories are abuzz in the North Lake Brownwood community of Tamarack Mountain after resident Jimmy Bob Jones claims to have seen the 
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    NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)



    Plot to kidnap Loch Ness Monster exposed - Daily Star
    Daily StarPlot to kidnap Loch Ness Monster exposedDaily StarAN attempt to abduct the Loch Ness Monster and put it on display at the Natural History

    Natural History Museum 'plotted to kill and kidnap' the Loch Ness Monster
    The documents, exposed by David Clarke in his new book Britain' s X-traordinary Files, show that in March 1934 an unnamed official at the museum ...

    The Loch Ness Monster and the BBC
    Roland Watson examines the history of Nessie coverage on the British TV and radio. More.
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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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    NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Tuesday

    ON THIS DAY IN 1886 - The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor by U.S. President Cleveland. The statue weighs 225 tons and is 152 feet tall. It was originally known as "Liberty Enlightening the World." 


  • Rare Breed Pigs to Help Dorset's Endangered Specie...
  • A 45,000-Year-Old Leg Bone Reveals The Oldest Huma...
  • Musk deer leaving habitat
  • Wild Red Pandas filmed in Myanmar for first time
  • Bermuda: 'Extinct' snail found living in alley
  • Secret wing colors attract female fruit flies

  • End of the road for New Delhi’s elephants?


    • 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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