SAVING WILD HAMSTERS

http://www.allaboutwildlife.com/endangered-species/saving-wild-hamsters/6474#more-6474

HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH, ER POLECAT

Following yesterday's story about the polecat in Co Durham, hair samples are being sent to Lars Thomas to see if he can work out whether it is a polecat or a ferret...

HAUNTED SKIES: Some odds and sods from John and Dawn

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2011/10/volume-3-front-cover-and-news-from-2003.html

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1920 Frank Herbert, the author of Dune, was born.
And now the news:

Seabird thought extinct is alive and well
U.S. government joins probe of mysterious seal dea...
Burma’s president calls halt on Myitsone dam
Bittern breeds at Kent's Stodmarsh reserve for fir...
Hordle New Forest peacock removal opposed
Rare flame brocade moth is established in the UK (...

The spice must flow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np9zFPzcNug

WEIRD TORRIDGESIDE BLOG

http://torridgeside.blogspot.com/

A new blog to complement the column that Corinna and I write each month in the Bideford Post.

DALE DRINNON: Possible oriental australopithecine

http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2011/10/possible-oriental-australopithecine.html

The blog slated for Fiday at Frontiers of Zoology just went up. It has a bearing on both the Flores Hobbit and the Orang Gadang by way of discussing "Meganthropus"

And Rex Gilroy wants to have these get through to Australia as well. I'm none too certain that the evidence warrants that: we have reports of large and small hairy guys in Australia but it seems to me they should all be variants on one species.

ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

 News and stories from the remoter fringes of the CFZ blogosphere...

From Crypto Squad USA:

• The Beast of Bowman Hill — A sighting of the Jersey Devil, or something like it...

From Nick Redfern's "There's Something in the Woods...":

• Bigfoot Poll Results — What Nick's readers think Bigfoot might be...
• A Cryptozoological Passing — The death of a Bigfoot film-maker...
• Monster Hot-Spots — Why certain locations seem to attract more than their fair share of strange beasts...

From CFZ Australia:

• On the Track - Episode 50 — The latest episode from CFZtv...
• A Queensland Tiger spotted near Ipswich — A thylacine sighting on the mainland...
• OOPA: Cuscus a long way from home — Identifying a mysterious creature dropped off at a zoo in China...
• Rare albino whale visits Australian waters — A white whale calf is spotted off the coast...