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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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Friday, April 26, 2013

DALE DRINNON: Patterson/Gimlin Footage, Frontiers of Anthropology, Benny's Blogs

New at the Frontiers of Zoology:
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THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS NOT SURE WHETHER HE'S COMPLIANT OR NOT

I have always found it irritating when journalist types crow over having access to something that the rest of us mere mortals don't have access to. But I am just about to do exactly that thing. Except I am not crowing. That would be vulgar. I have one of the few sets of songfiles for the forthcoming Judy Dyble album 'Flow and Change'. I am listening it as I speak....it is absolutely magnificent. I absolutely adore her last album 'Talking with Strangers', and I was afraid that nothing she could do would be as good as that was. I was wrong, because this album is quite possibly even better. I don't know. I am so overwhelmed by the rich textures, pastoral splendour and sheer beauty of this magnificent record. I will be writing more about it very soon....and you won't have to wait long to hear it yourselves. It comes out this summer.
 
We have a visitor; my old friend Richard Stanbrook who is a very good, if idiosyncratic classical composer. We were students together three decades ago, and have kept in touch ever since. So don't expect any answers from me if you telephone or email. We are out with Mother and Richard for the afternoon, but will be back in time for the arrival of Helen's goldfish tonight.
 
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Guess where Rob Ayling was last night (2): Exclusive pics from last night's show by Mick Farren and the Deviants
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/guess-where-rob-ayling-was-last-night-2.html
 
 
 
 

*  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: http://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 53 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and a not very small orange kitten (who isn't) 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 orange cats?
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OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today


Yesterday’s News Today

On this day in 1978 Stana Katic was born. Katic is best known for playing Kate Becket in the amazingly good detective drama 'Castle' but also played Hana Gitleman in the superhero drama 'Heroes' who could control electronic communications telepathically.
And now the news:
  • 'Judas' animals - Traitors to their own kind: Radi...
  • A new species on every mountain - Extraordinary ev...
  • Four rhino heads stolen from museum in Dublin
  • Hedgehogs emerging from hibernation very late in 2...
  • Decoding Touch: Rats Detect Textures With Their Wh...
  • 71 New Parasitoid Wasp Species Discovered from Sou...
  • A Beautiful Species of Tree Iguana Redescribed 179...
  • Long-Lost Giant Fish from Amazon Rediscovered – vi...

    • A trailer for the first ever episode of Castle:
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    Thursday, April 25, 2013

    THE MYSTERY LYNX PAPER IS FINALLY PUBLISHED (Story via TetZoo)




    Ab4458 the Edwardian lynx. Aww, cute! Photo (c) Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.
    For over 100 years, a potentially significant dead cat has been sat in storage in a British museum. Specifically, the specimen – the lynx Ab4458 – has been at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery ever since it was added to the collections there in February 1903, and what makes it significant is that it was shot dead after living wild in Devon, southern England. As revealed in a new paper published by Aberystwyth* University’s Max Blake and a team of colleagues (myself, Greger Larson, Charlotte King, Geoff Nowell, Manabu Sakamoto and Ross Barnett), the specimen represents a historic ‘British big cat’, though with ‘big cat’ being used very much in the vernacular sense, not the technical one (Blake et al. 2013).
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    VIDEO: Witness Account, Findings and Bigfoot Sounds?

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    CRYPTOLINKS: Company insures against Nessie collision

    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, usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me.
    Company insures against Nessie collision
    Inverness Courier
    Company insures against Nessie collision. Jacobite Cruises has insured itself against a collision with Nessie. JACOBITE Cruises is in line for a six-figure pay out — but only if one of its boats is damaged by the Loch Ness Monster. The tourist cruise ...
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    Inverness Courier
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    FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES

    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. So after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.
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