Animals & Men

Infobox_Magazine
title = Animals & Men
editor = Jonathan Downes
frequency = -
category = Cryptozoology
company = -
firstdate = 1994
finaldate = -
finalnumber = -
country = United Kingdom
website = [http://www.cfz.org.uk CFZ website]

"Animals & Men" is the house journal for the Centre for Fortean Zoology. It was founded in 1994 and covers the wide range of phenomena that fall into the broad category of Cryptozoology.

Issues

To date there have been 36 issues. The articles cover the following topics (all issues also contain news pages, reviews and letters):

* 1. Relict Pine Martens, Giant Sloths, Sumatran and Javan Rhinos, Golden Frogs, Frog Falls
* 2. Mystery bears in Oxford and The Atlas Mountains, Loch Ness reports, Green Lizards, Woodwose, The Tatzelwurm
* 3. Giant Worm in Eastbourne, Lake Monsters of New Guinea, Giant Lizards in Papua, Mystery Cats, Black Dogs on Dartmoor, Scorpion Mystery
* 4. Manatees of St Helena, Migo: The Lake Monster of New Britain, The search for the Tasmanian Thylacine
* 5. Mystery cats, Loch Ness, More on the "Migo Video", Boars and Pumas, The Hairy Hands of Dartmoor
* 6. The Owlman Special; also the Humped Elephants of Nepal, Mystery Cats, Sabre-toothed cats, Mysterious hominids of Africa, The British Nandi Bear?, Bibliography of Cryptozoology books pt 1 (by Dr Karl Shuker)
* 7. Mystery Whales, Strangeness in Scotland, On collecting a cryptid, Bodmin Leopard Skull, Shuker's "Crypto" Bibliography pt 2
* 8. Green Cats and Dogs, Mystery Whales, Quagga Project, Bibliography of Cryptozoological books (3rd & concluding part), Malayan Man Beast
* 9. Hong Kong Tiger, Horseman of Lincolnshire, Scottish BHM, Congo Peacock, Mystery whales
* 10. Mystery Moth of Madagascar, Bengal Leopard Cats, The Derry, Wild Boars in Kent, a new Irish lake monster, mystery whales and the truth about the Essex Beach Corpses
* 11. The "Walruses Special", also: Feathered Dinosaurs, Ground Sloth Survival in North America, Mystery Whales, Initial Bipedalism
* 12. Lions: The Barbary Lion, etc. More Feathered Dinosaurs, Chinese Crabs in the Thames, Mystery Animals of Germany, News from New Zealand
* 13. Pangolins; also Moby the Sperm Whale, Barking Beast of Bath, Yorkshire ABCs, Molly the Singing Oyster, Leatherback Turtles, Walruses
* 14. The Dragons of Yorkshire, Irish mystery animals, In Search Of "Gambo", Charlie Fort and the Vampire Sheep Slayer - and Jackals; and the first of four Clinton's Cogitations (Clin Keeling looks back on and comments on the previous issue)
* 15. Lake Dakataua "Migo" monster update, The Weird Warbling Whatsit of the Westcountry, The Beast of Llangurig, The Waspman, The Bigfoot "Murders", and three articles on beavers
* 16. The CFZ hunt for the Chupacabra (Mexico etc), Eastern Cougars, Snakes with Legs, Cat Curiosities, Cryptoherps in Indiana, Werewolves of London Again, Giant Lizards in England, and the first What's Afoot? (by Richard Freeman)
* 17. Wolverine - or muddy badger? Killer bees. Terror birds. Whale species. Conference news. Turtle Tales. Big Cat news.
* 18. GUST Norway 'expedition' report, Wolverines?, Crypto-sharks, Puerto Lamprey, Quagga, Big Cats and Kent mysteries.
* 19. A British Thylacine? Sipandjee ape. A Yorkshire coypu. Rukh - myth? Ayrshire Tales. Kent cat sightings. Giant ground sloth survival.
* 20. Wolverines: a Reply - Chris Moiser. More African tales from Roy Kerridge. Bestiary: The Chimaera - Ade Dimmick. Crypto-Curiosities of Kent's Past - Neil Arnold. How many Kiwi species are there? - Darren Naish. Big in Japan - Richard Freeman (cryptids). ESP in Animals - Nick Redfern. Eternal Cat - Marcus Matthews (cat survival).
* 21. Scamp - The alternative animal - Nick Redfern. Kent Big Cat seen by Neil Arnold. Tatzelwurm proposal - Richard Freeman. Kota Mama Expedition - Report by John Blashford Snell. Worlds in Collision - Emmet Sweeney. Big Birds and Out of Place Quadrupeds - Terry Hooper. The Parrots of Woodbury - Jon Downes.
* 22. Evolution of Mustelids Darren Naish. The CIA - A Cryptozoological Intelligence Agency? (Nick Redfern). The Father of Cryptozoology retires. The Return of the Owlman (in film form). The CFZ Big Fish Project. Proof of Absence.. (Martin Jenkins). Mystery animals of Kent (Neil Arnold). What's Afoot? (Richard Freeman)
* 23. On the trail of the Naga: Richard Freeman in Thailand. Lake monsters in Switzerland. Geordie big cats. Mammoths in Thailand. Caspian Tiger rediscovery. Nobby the giant Gourami fish dies.
* 24. Ninki Nanka - the Dragon of the Gambia (expedition report). An African Owlman? Lara the Lynx. The Myakka photographs. The Bosnian Beast photo. Mystery Insect apparition, etc.
* 25. Thylacine update, tributes to Bernard Heuvelmans, out-of-place crocs & 'gators, earliest human ancestor?, leviathans in S E England, and secret archives: foot & mouth (Nick Redfern)
* 26. Col. John Blashford-Snell interview Pt 1, Big Cats in the Isle of Sheppey, the Dorset Dragon skull (and Tim the Yowie Man), the CIA's Bionic cat experiments (and other musings from Nick Redfern), and 10 pages of news incl. Lake & Sea Monsters.
* 27. The hunt for the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, Blashford-Snell interview Pt 2, the British Lynx (Chris Moiser), Morgawr returns?, the Texan Gargoyles (Redfern), the Wyrd Weekend conference, Encounter with a Pooka?, Cleadon Puma, and 11 news pages including man-beasts / BHMs.
* 28. The Dragon of Lake Tianchi, Letter from America (Nick Redfern), Catfish Rising: the Monster of Martin Mere, Bunnyman – Man, monster or myth? (Neil Arnold), The Sycophant (new page).
* 29. CFZ Investigation Reports: 1: BHM Sightings in Northumberland, 2: Wallaby Ripping in Cleveland. Bigfoot (Nick's Letter from America). Big Cats special.
* 30. Issue 30 Saltwater Crocodiles in the news, Giant Squids and other Cephalopod news, Bigfoot reports, Big Cat Study Group, American Anomalies, Dragons of Scandinavia, two expedition reports from Colonel Blashford-Snell
* 31. Late survival of Homotherium confirmed, Big Cats, Bigfoot, Sumatra Expedition report, Bolam Lake hair sample analysis, Beast of Walsall, Unknown primate in Guyana
* 32. Mystery cats in Wiltshire, The Sevenoaks Jackal, Giant Squid photographed, Mythology of the Raven, Big Cat vigil in Lincolnshire, Unconvention report, Primates on the prowl, Unusually coloured frogs..
* 33. Suffolk Horse Eel, rediscovery of the Red Wolf in Texas, Monsters and the Military, Australia's Mystery Marsupial Palnther, Raccoons in the UK, Weird Weekend report, Thunderbird reports.

ee also

*List of magazines of anomalous phenomena

External links

* [http://stores.ebay.co.uk/CFZ-THE-CRYPTO-SHOP_Animals-Men-Magazine Animals & Men section of the CFZ's Crypto Shop]
* [http://www.cfz.org.uk CFZ website]
* [http://www.forteantimes.com/review/animalsandmen.shtml Magwatch page] - reviews of individual issues by the Fortean Times