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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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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

OLL LEWIS: The return of Taxonomy Fail

I was looking through ebay this morning to see if I could find any of the $1 Pokemon coins that were issued by the Island of Niue for sale, when I happened upon their series of "World's cutest puppies" $1 coins.
The coins are indeed rather cute and in my opinion are some of the best looking coins ever minted, however there is a problem with them... In fact there are at least two problems, I wonder if eagle eyed readers of the blog can spot them in the  picture. 

TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS

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. 

  • UK SIGHTING: Clare Balding spooked after spotting ...
  • NEWSLINK: Meet the man who keeps big cats at home
  • NEWSLINK: NW China gets rare glimpse of big cat sw...
  • US SIGHTING: Big cat-like animal spotted in Janesv...
  • NEWSLINK: Chinese tycoon convicted of eating big c...

  • NEWSLINK: Young lioness undergoes steep decline in...
  • 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. 






    BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



    Bigfoot Bedtime Story: Amish Bigfoot Sighting
    BigfootEvidence: Here's a very interesting report from Pennsylvania about an Amish Bigfoot sighting. Listen to the very end of the video to hear 

    Bigfoot By The Dashboard Lights! New Utah Sighting [VIDEO]
    Someone going by the handle AnythingWhatever has uploaded some blurry, dark footage of a purported bigfoot outside of Sundance, Utah. While the 

    The only Swedish Bigfoot footage?
    I spend most of my thinking time trying to decide if Bigfoot is real or not. Still don't know

    Want to Attend a Real Bigfoot Hunt in Kentucky?
    Bigfoot Evidence Matt K.
    Think you have what it takes to go on an actual bigfoot outing? Now's your chance if you are in the Kentucky area. The Kentucky Bigfoot Research 

    THE GONZO BLOG DOO DAH MAN GIRDS HIS LOINS

    The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
     
    There is another update from Daevid Allen via the Daevid Alien Facebook Page: "Tomorrow daevid will have a second operation to stem the leaking lymph node. This will be his third general anesthetic operation in 14 days - yes it's been just two weeks since the first big operation. I guess those larger procedures take a bit of tidying up sometimes. Let's focus and hope the op is successful this time and therefore the last that daevid has to endure."
     
    I made (what I thought was) a witty response to a friend writing to say that he wasn't going to be able to make it to the Weird Weekend this year, which I described to Corinna as Whistleresque. Whistler (as of the painting of his Mother) sent a telegram to arrive in the middle of Oscar Wilde's wedding reading "Am Delayed, don't wait". That is something I always thought massively amusing, but then again many of my tastes are massively out of date. I don't get most modern comedians but still find Diary of a Nobody highly amusing.
     
     
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    *  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: www.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 54 who - together with an orange kitten named after a song by Frank Zappa 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 kitten?

    OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today