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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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Monday, April 08, 2013

SHERI MYLER: Day 2

Sheri Myler, our student who is doing a series of placements with us over the next year or so is back for her second stint. Once again, I am putting her to work and she will be blogging each day about her time here...


 Sunday’s work began slightly later than usual for me, as all Sunday work should, when not abolished altogether. I didn’t need to do the animal rounds, though there was still some observation of fish feeding.

The majority of the day, approximately nine hours solid, consisted of type-setting the Eberhart book. “D” and “G” were the two largest sections, so were naturally delegated to me. (Cheeky Little Ratbag JD) We got some way through “I” before putting this task to bed for the night.

This was followed by a two and a half hour lecture on cryptozoology. This included the various types of mystery hominids (Orang-pendek, Yeti, Bigfoot and Almasty), which cryptids we think are most likely to exist and why, and the running abilities of different types of monitor lizards as a theoretical basis for the reports of Megalania.

After the lecture was concluded, the cat hunt was very short as there was very little petrol and nobody fancied walking home in the dead of night. A quick skip through the woods and I was back at my B&B. when I called the talk a “lecture”, it was as formal a lecture as one can have with a brew in one hand and a dog using the other as a pillow. 

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