Friday, July 20, 2018

NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)



OPINION: In a recent column, Critic Te Arohi editor Joel MacManus lambasted the Loch Ness "monster hunt", calling the scientific project and the ...

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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Richard returned from Tajikistan the other day and telephoned me in what (I believe is called) high dudgeon from Clapham Junction, complaining that he couldn't buy a bacon sandwich and that there was nothing to eat except for artisan coffee and croissants. Thus speaks the voice of my favourite intrepid Englishman. I told Charlotte about it and she said that she would personally prefer the coffee and croissants. These days I would have to agree with her, although I think I would prefer a nice cup of tea.

He is coming up here on Sunday and we are all (we includes various Phillipsons and quite possibly Charlotte's friend Amazon) are all looking forward to hearing about his adventures.
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THYLACINES IN THE NEWS




Another unlikely beast rumoured to be dwelling secretively in the South West is the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger — extinct since the 20th century ...

BIG CAT ROUND UP

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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