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Cave bear (Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller & Heinroth) males' den from Velika Pecina in Duboka Near Kucevo, Eastern Serbia
Author(s) -
Vesna Dimitrijević,
Jelena Ćalić-Ljubojević,
Katarina Bogićević
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
geološki anali balkanskoga poluostrva/geološki anali balkanskog poluostrva
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0747
pISSN - 0350-0608
DOI - 10.2298/gabp0264153d
Subject(s) - cave , archaeology , paleontology , geography , geology
More a 100 years after the first research in the cave Velika pećina in Duboka near Kučevo cave bear remains were discovered in a small chamber cut off from the passable channels by a 7 m high slope. A whole skull, bones of a forearm in articulation, and other skeleton parts were laying on the cave floor encrusted in travertine cover and in some places overgrown by stalagmites. Bones belonged to adult males, which found there the shelter to hibernate, in a short epizode that ended by closing the channels that once linked this part of the cave to a surface

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