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11-02-2018, 04:07 AM( This post was last modified: 11-02-2018, 05:45 AM by Ghari Sher )
(02-04-2016, 03:35 PM)brotherbear Wrote: Cave art in France depicts the cave bears in red which suggests that cave bears were typically red ( reddish brown ) in color.
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I agree with what @Pickets said - that might only reflect the available colours at the time. We also have reddish paintings of the cave hyena and European ice age leopard, which might not necessarily reflect their true colours (particularly for the latter animal).
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Knowing that cave bears were mainly forest-dwellers, I'd suspect they had a dark brown coloration as brown bears in similar environments tend to have, but this might vary, e.g. with the alpine varieties being lighter and more rocky in colour to blend in with their surroundings.