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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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Friday, June 20, 2014

CRYPTOLINK: Albino salmon

A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me. 

So it might not be quite as rare as a bigfoot, but check out this albino salmon a man filmed in its natural habitat. As a bonus, he also got some footage of a bald eagle. I wonder if they taste any different. The fish, not the eagle. Check it out:



http://bigfootevidence.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/watch-man-films-rare-albino-kokanee.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+BigfootEvidence+(Bigfoot+Evidence)

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. 



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. 


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    We saw something in the trees so we turned around as quickly as possible. We captured this footage of what might be a bigfoot or sasquatch

    The Truth About Bigfoot: Gigantopithecus and Other Fun on the Scientific Fringes
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    Does The Figure In The New Provo Canyon Footage Look a Bigfoot or a Bear?
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    This is an interesting first-hand report of a bigfoot encounter. What makes it the most interesting is the details the witness provides about how the ...

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    Bigfoot Evidence Matt K.
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    Famous Rocky Mountain Bigfoot Footage from 1962
    This may be the first recorded evidence of Bigfoot. It shows a curious creature hopping from rock to rock in the snowy Rockies. Enough to convince this 

    Sundance Utah Bigfoot Footage - 3 Videos
    This is the original video of an alleged Bigfoot that was filmed near Sundance, Utah. Sundance is not that far from the infamous Provo Canyon sighting 

    Bigfoot In Detroit?
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    THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN ISN'T WELL, HE STAYED BACK AT THE HOTEL

    The Gonzo Daily - Friday
    Today started nicely. I woke up late and came downstairs to find three tracks from the forthcoming Atkins-May Project album waiting for me. More experimental and proggy than their previous work, it is nice to see them taking risks and breaking new ground. Al even sounds like Tom Waits on one track. Very good work chaps. In other news, I have had two reports of Britain's rarest snake from different parts of North Devon. The Smooth Snake is one of those herps for which the UK is at the utter northern point of their range, and is only found naturally in a few parts of southern England. However, like the swallowtail butterfly, global warming seems not to be all bad news, as it looks - excitingly - as if it may be increasing its range. There has been a reintroduction project into parts of south Devon from which it vanished fifty years ago, but - as far as I am aware - nothing of the sort in North Devon. So are they increasing their range naturally? Or has there been an unofficial introduction project? Or, most tantalisingly, have they been there all along? Other reports from Combe Martin in recent years suggests the latter.

    The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#82) is here to read or download at www.gonzoweekly.com. It has the Wally Hope on the front cover and features an interview with Dean Wally, who is the current custodian of his ashes. There is an exclusive review of Yes on the Cruise to the Edge, with previously unpublished pictures. There is news of Mick Abrahams' new album which features guest appearances by a Stone, a Mann, and a Whitesnake, and there are pictures of Genre Peak in the studio. There is an in depth look at a new book about the idiosyncratic 4AD records, and a drunken ramble about Rik Mayall that dictated at 4:00am the other day with the best part of a bottle of bourbon inside of me. There are also new shows from the peculiar multiverse of Sub Reality Sandwich, from Canterbury Sans Frontières, from Friday Night Progressive, and from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and Gilbert's Potoroos (OK, no specimens f Australia's rarest mammal, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!
    Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
    All issues from #70 can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is power chaps, we have to share it!
    To make sure that you don't miss your copy of future issues make an old hippy a happy chappy and subscribe
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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?

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