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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, July 11, 2011

CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale muses on Gambian sea elephants and the Erikson Project


http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2011/07/gambian-sea-elephant-and-other-sea.html
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2011/07/re-news-from-erickson-project.html

SUMATRA 2011 EXPEDITION LOGO





Many thanks to Mark North for this cracking logo...

CFZ CANADA: Poo Poo-ing Unknown Animals

Robin sings the praises of scat....

ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

From CFZ Australia:
Meet the Cryptozoologist: Dean Harrison
Update: Sumatra 2011 - In Search of the Orang-Pendek

From CFZ New Zealand:
New Beginnings

From CFZ Canada:
Poo Poo-ing Unknown Animals

CFZ PEOPLE: Dawn Holloway

Happy Birthday to Dawn, the feminine half of those jolly nice people at Haunted Skies...

DR BEACHCOMBING'S MID-ATLANTIC FROGS

Dr Beachcombing wrote:

"I'm very curious about the following entry and I wondered whether you'd ever seen it: the truth is I've worried about it for years and I hope to have at least a workable theory before I die. I've got in touch with a couple of cryptozoologists including yourself. Let me know if you have an expert opinion I can put up with a link back to your site for my readers".

http://www.strangehistory.net/2011/07/10/mid-atlantic-frogs/

HAUNTED SKIES: Don and his birds. Bootiful thanks Don + UFOs!

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2011/07/don-and-his-birds-bootiful-thanks-don.html

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1973 Lon Chaney Jr, most famous for his movie roll as the Wolfman, died. He has also been spotted dancing with the queen on occasion, as this testimony attests:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhSc8qVMjKM
And now the news:

Sperm whales: the 12-metre-long babysitters
Monkeys in India take over hospital after masterin...
Kidnapped dog finds its way home
Horse caught by speed camera
Window crash owl leaves imprint

Dance, owls! DANCE! :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6lNuNI7uQM

THE FILM OF THE INDIA EXPEDITION

The first of two feature-length films due from CFZtv this year.

The YouTube blurb reads:

The latest feature-length film from CFZtv. At the end of 2010, a five man expedition from the Centre for Fortean Zoology went to the Garo Hills, in Meghalaya, Northern India to look for the Mande Burung - an Indian analogue of the Yeti. This is their story...

Directed and edited by Jonathan Downes for CFZtv




CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Two more from Dale - thunderbirds and a sea serpent

The latest update on the Indiana Thunderbird blog is now up:
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2011/07/thunderbirds-in-indiana.html

Naturally it also makes a couple of references to Ohio and Illinois as well.

I went ahead and put through the next blog, mostly to get done with it; coordinating the photos and the illustrations were a problem;

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2011/07/some-other-pristichampsus-sea-serpent.html

CFZ PEOPLE: Oll Lewis



Happy Birthday mate...