Bears of the Pleistocene

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The Cave Bear Story... The brown bear then acted as a substitute ( or, to use the technical term, vicar ) of the cave bear in Britain. This is unexpected. Students of the living Ursus arctos stress that this species avoids caves as winter quarters. Dr. Peter Krott, who lived for several years in the Alps with the bears he had brought up ( "they are not really dangerous, as long as you behave in a bearish way yourself," he commented ), noted that they dug their own dens, although natural caves were available in the area. The Craighead brothers, speaking on the basis of unparallelled experience, emphasize the same for the grizzlies of Yellowstone Park. And yet we find the British bears violating the code of brown bear behavior and denning in caves! Reply