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Big cat debate re-ignited by a chance photo which captures 'the Beast' -mysterycatblog post repost

Big cats are again in the headlines with a claimed but disputed sighting in West Cornwall. With new evidence on the phenomenon expected later this year, Lyn Barton examines whether it is the stuff of silly season or a genuine cause for concern.
In the broad light of a Cornish day, a creature leapt at a amateur photographer leading to claims that a big cat, akin to the Beast of Bodmin Moor, is yet again on the prowl.
Henry Warren as out and about taking pictures in fields near his home in Gwinear, West Cornwall, when the large cat-like creature pounced.
The 19-year-old, who despite being stunned managed to keep his finger on the shutter button to grab an image, said he was convinced the animal must have been a big cat.
The publication of his photograph has once more re-ignited the debate about whether the Westcountry is home to packs of secretive puma-like creatures which roam the fields or - as many people claim - that the only thing on the loose is an overactive imagination.
Mr Warren said he was in no doubt about what he saw.

Read more at http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Big-cat-debate-ignited-chance-photo-captures/story-22012030-detail/story.html#yay4bLEwqApkUDzK.99

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Subject: My interest in and being an Investigator of Anomalous Phenomena-steve rider interviewed bymark antony raines -ghostman

What Inspired You?

Well, I have always had an interest in anything anomalous. Not just Ghosts, UFO’s and Monsters But, subjects like Healing, ESP, Timeslips, Automatic writing, forbidden archaeology and ancient sites like Avebury and Stonehenge etc, etc.

I can’t exactly pinpoint where my interest started but, it was there when I was very young. I guess one thing that did peak my interest though was my father telling me of the Ghost he and his younger brother saw when they were teenagers.

It was in an area of Southampton in Hampshire. They were at a place where there was a ruined house. They both saw a figure of a cavalier (from the days of the English civil war in the 1600’s). I remember my Dad’s description. He told me it was a figure, perfect in every way and detail. But, he did say that it was white and you could see through it. That was all as they both ran.

But, since then many things and people have inspired me to continue.

What are your Aims?

In recent years I have trained in Anomalous Phenomena Research with MAPIT at basic and Advanced Level but, I have also done many other things such as Reiki, I am a Reiki 2 healer and I.E.T. (Integrated Energy Therapy) and I am an IET Master Instructor, among other things.

My aims are to settle here in North Devon and to get my new Group, Eternal Realities, off the ground. What I am to do with Eternal Realities is to set up a group with a difference. Eternal Realities will be an Anomalous Phenomena research group with far reaching aims to integrate all of what I have learnt. It will provide a group which will look into reports of Phenomena but, will also provide healing and other services should they be requested by witnesses or experiencers.

I may even take it further in the future as I have some other ideas but, that’s for another time.

What plans do you have for the future?

For the future I hope to establish Eternal Realities and also create good links with other groups. I already work closely with the local group CFZ (Centre for Fortean Zoology) run by my good friend Jon Downes and I also have a group in Southampton I helped to found called South Coast Paranormal, who run paranormal events for the public. SCP is different in that we don’t look to use loads of

technology and equipment but, try to help our guests work with their own personal energy in experiencing phenomena. I also work closely with some other groups via facebook where I help with my knowledge and advice etc.

So, for the future it is all about getting the group up and running here and to forge close ties with other groups and helping those people out there who are seeing and experiencing things they can’t explain.

If anyone would like to know more about me, my background and the new group then feel free to look me up on facebook or via my group Eternal Realities also on facebook or email me at steve.rider@rocketmail.com

I will also be at this year’s Weird Weekend at the Small School in Hartland, North Devon, doing a little photography for the event so, please come have a chat.

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Big cat sighting prompts claims they may be breeding -http://mysterycats.blogspot.co.uk/part of cfz-http://www.cfz.org.uk/

Henry's picture shows a cat-like creature running for cover

Comments (2) A TEENAGER'S snaps of what appears to be a large cat have prompted speculation that the animals might be breeding and spreading in Devon and Cornwall.
Henry Warren, 19, was taking pictures in fields when the huge cat-like creature leapt out in front of him.
The student managed to rattle off several frames before the animal disappeared into undergrowth and has since reported the incident to the Plymouth-based British Big Cat Society.
Britain's most famous big cat was first spotted in 1983 and there have been over 60 recorded sightings since. There have been sightings on Exmoor, Dartmoor and several other rural locations.
It was declared a phantom in 1995 by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food but Henry thinks they're wrong.
Henry, of near Gwinear, west Cornwall, said: "I was taking pictures of our new house when I saw something run across the field and-read more at link

http://www.middevongazette.co.uk/Big-cat-sighting-prompts-claims-breeding/story-21944388-detail/story.html-

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MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMAN

It is true  what the  song  says us  English  work during the hottest part  of the day.In Europe it  shuts during this time for a siesta.Why we do it  must be a culture thing and we soon forget  the  heavy rain that caused all the floods and  damage so enjoy it would last  forever?mad dog and englishman -noel coward

GREEN EYED DOGS

From observations made by Charles Darwin ,scientists have proven dogs suffer jealousy.Experiments revealed that  when  owners displayed affection to a stuffed dog that -barked  ,whined,wagged its tail.The following  happened exhibited jealous behavior such as snapping ,pushing owner .

Report identifies waters around Devon and Cornwall as jellyfish hotspot

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The Westcountry has been identified as a hotspot for jellyfish sightings in a new report which analyses where and when the creatures appear.

The University of Exeter study – published in the Journal of the Marine Biological Association – was based on more than 5,000 jellyfish sightings, of eight different species, sent to the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) between 2003 and 2011.

The coasts of Devon and Cornwall were identified as hotspots for both the diversity of species seen and in what numbers.

“Our survey puts jellyfish on the map in the UK. In this latest paper we show where and when these species now occur throughout UK coastal waters,” said Peter Richardson, biodiversity programme manager for the MCS.

“The last time the national picture was described was well over four decades ago, so this study provides a very timely update.”

The survey is the largest of its kind in the UK and has been attracting a growing number of sightings, with 1,133 reports last year.

Moon, compass, lion’s mane, blue and barrel jellyfish are the most common, according to the study. Other species include the mauve stinger and the Portuguese man of war and by-the-wind sailor which are close relatives of jellyfish.

More than 500 reports have already been made this year – mainly of barrel jellyfish.

Professor Brendan Godley, of the University of Exeter, said: “The remarkable number of barrel jellyfish reported from South West England this year is quite unusual, and at odds with what our report describes, previous years have seen hotspots for this species in West Welsh and Scottish waters. We’re not sure why, but the very mild winter probably meant more adults survived at depth, which will have returned to the surface in spring as waters warmed up.

“This year’s strange barrel jellyfish results highlight the importance of running the survey year in and year out to track these unusual events

and discover if they turn into trends.”

Dr Richardson said: “We still know relatively little about jellyfish, but given the economic impacts that large numbers of jellyfish can have on tourism, fishing, aquaculture and even power generation, we can’t afford to ignore them.

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OUCH- MY TEETH HURT

A boy in India had 232 teeth extracted after a 72 hour operation at JJ Hospital ,Mumba.This was described as a very rare and a world record.

Bats 'fly by polarised light'

Bats use the pattern of polarised light in the evening sky to get their bearings, according to a new study.

As well as having unusual echolocation skills and their own magnetic compass, bats are now the first mammals known to make use of polarised light.

Other animals with this ability include birds, anchovies and dung beetles.

To make the discovery, published in Nature Communications, zoologists placed bats in boxes with polarising windows before watching them fly home.

Light waves normally wiggle all around their direction of travel, but when they pass through special filters - or are scattered by gases in the atmosphere - they can become polarised, so that the oscillations all line up.

"We initially didn't think that the bats would use polarised light," said the paper's senior author, Dr Richard Holland from Queen's University in Belfast.

Dr Holland was one of the scientists who discovered in 2006 that bats navigate by somehow sensing the earth's magnetic field - but that in-built compass needs to be calibrated. Other experiments showed that the calibration was happening at sunset, when the bats' day begins.

"We thought that surely, the sun's disc itself would be a more likely cue," Dr Holland told the BBC. But his team recently tested how bats responded when the sun's image was shifted by mirrors, and found no difference.read more

Think penguins are cute? These bad eggs need an Antarctic

Wildlife documentaries are often criticised for being twee, crammed with adorable fluff-bundles and doe-eyed darlings. 

They make us imagine the wilds are teeming with creatures that yearn to curl up on our sofas and snuggle.

Remember March Of The Penguins, cinema’s 2005 surprise success? Narrator Morgan Freeman convinced us that they were seabird saints - moral guardians of the Antarctic.

All over America, evangelical churches ferried parishioners to the pictures in busloads, to celebrate the pious, monogamous penguins who mate for life.

So it came as a bombshell to learn in Penguin Post Office (BBC2) that Morgan got it badly wrong.

These birds are nothing less than sleazy gangsters in feather tuxedos. They’re thieving, sex-mad chick-murderers and they stink to high heaven.

At least no one is going to accuse director Andrew Graham-Brown of being twee.

His team filmed the bird’s breeding cycle over a summer on the tiny British outpost of Goudier Island, 700 miles south of Argentina, where volunteers man the planet’s most southerly gift shop and Post Office. 

Once, this was a whaling station, and the evidence is still there of hardy seamen stranded for years at a time at the end of the world - images of Liz Taylor and Marilyn Monroe in flimsy negligees are painted lovingly on the walls.

But now it’s a busy tourist stop-off. 

Cruise ships bring 18,000 visitors a year, and they send nearly 80,000 postcards from the red Royal Mail postbox. ‘It’s kinda relaxing,’ smiled the postmistress, on sabbatical from her job teaching at a U.S. school, as she franked each stamp by hand.

This would be an icy idyll, if it weren’t for the 2,000 gentoo penguins. 

The tourists thought they were cute, but after a week of living cheek by beak beside them, you’d be begging the courts for a seabird Asbo.

They steal incessantly. It would be safer to hand your house keys to a junkie than let a gentoo anywhere near your rockery.

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The penguins in Natural World are 'nothing less than sleazy gangsters in feather tuxedos'

Given half a chance, any gentoo will be having a fling with a neighbour, and they don’t care who finds out. Penguin morality would make a rabbit blush.

Domestic violence is rife. 

Husband and wife stab and peck at each other, jealously bickering about everything from their ramshackle stone nests to whose turn it is to sit on the egg. 

Chicks that stray from the nest will be viciously battered to death: penguins appear to enjoy violence.

On top of all that, the human volunteers have to spend every morning with a broom and buckets of hot water, knee-deep in rank droppings on their doorstep. 

Graham-Brown couldn’t have done a better hatchet job if he’d caught penguins dealing drugs to the cruise ship v

ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM - TV PROGRAMME

If you visit Mfuwe Lodge,Zambia for a holiday you may see unexpected guests .Every year elephants walk through reception ,nose around the  lobby ,wander through the  gardens.This trek is done  to feast  on large mango tree in the garden.-link -animal planet

Red squirrel hand-reared by rangers after mother rejects her baby

Red squirrel Flower in the office at Escot – the kit is being hand-reared by two nature rangers after being abandoned by her mother

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A baby red squirrel is being hand-reared by two nature rangers at a Devon estate, writes Louis Doree.

Flower was abandoned by her mother, Holly, who had her first litter of four at Escot in East Devon.

Initially Flower was cared for by her mother, but staff noted she was being neglected.

Nature rangers Kerry James and Victoria Sissons stepped in to save the red squirrel kit and have been successful in hand-rearing her.

Now at eight weeks old, Flower has put on weight and is taking more solid food.

Kerry said: “It is very rewarding to care for Flower and to see her developing so well – though I must admit I am pleased that the late night and early morning feeds are almost over.

“Because she did spend a few weeks with her mother and siblings, Flower knows she is a squirrel and does not mistake us for her parents. It is really great to see her becoming more independent and displaying good squirrel behaviour such as hiding her food.”

Escot Park houses free-range red squirrels in a three-quarters of an acre walk-through enclosure, the second environment of its kind in the UK designed to protect them from the far more numerous and disease carrying greys. Red squirrels have declined due to increased competition from greys and the introduction of squirrel parapoxvirus.

Owner of Escot Park, John-Michael Kennaway is the most recent recipient of The David Stapleton Award, from the Red Squirrel Survival Trust.

Mr Kennaway received the award in recognition of his contribution to saving the red squirrel in the UK through the successful breeding programme at Escot Park and for opening a free access to all red squirrel encounter at Escot park.

Read more: http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Red-squirrel-hand-reared-rangers-mother-rejects/story-21746675-detail/story.html#ixzz38Zxus1ua

NEW WORLD - LONG YEAR

Kepler has found a distant  planet with  the  longest  year  of any planet found so far -704 days around its parent sun.link-Kepler sees world with distant orbit -bbc-science

SCHIZOPHRENIA

SCHIZOPHRENIA-80 previously unknown genes discovered by scientists.These are believed to be a reason people  are at  risk for SCHIZOPHRENIA.This was found in the worlds largest genetic study of disease putting on par with other medical conditions. link- large genes  find in schizophrenia -bbc-health

Two 8ft snakes found in children's playground

Two 8ft boa constrictors have been found close to a children’s playground in east London.

Police were called to Plashet Park in East Ham after numerous reports of two large snakes being spotted in the undergrowth.

Officers used a litter picker and a brown paper bag to retrieve the reptiles, which are non-venomous, but kill they prey by suffocation.

The snakes were taken to a local pet shop where they were identified as mature boa constrictors.

No one was hurt in the incident and police said they believed the snakes may have been released as unwanted pets.