Giant Mealy Mouth Ground Sloth.....extinct On Jan 4, 2014 9:28 AM, "Mark Minton" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree with Andy that the marks David mentioned are likely from a > bear. I've seen such marks in several caves in Virginia and West Virginia, > often quite far from any known entrance and also not associated with any > bones. We've also found large wallows in mud floors that are said to be > where bears slept. These signs seem to be more common than I would have > imagined. > > The marks Steve mentioned in Powell's are likely from a raccoon. > We found marks like that several places in Honey Creek, also far from any > known entrance. Of course it doesn't take much of an entrance for a > raccoon, as opposed to a bear... > > Mark > > At 11:05 AM 1/4/2014, Andy Gluesenkamp wrote: > >> Bear? I've found bear bones in SA caves and there was even a sighting >> in a local park a few years back. >> > > At 10:42 AM 1/4/2014, Steve Keselik wrote: > >> Some years back in Powell's cave we were hoping to find a shorter route >> to the stream passage via the maze. We didn't find any dig sites that >> looked promising but we did note some scratch marks about 4' up on the wall >> that looked like a small animal was trying to get out of the water as they >> all were in a horizontal line. If that was the case then that means there >> was water pretty high in the cave, In retrospect maybe it was just bat >> marks but the line was very straight with no projections to grab on >> to....Steve >> >> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 2:47 AM, David <[email protected]> wrote: >> A caver in the San Antonio area once told me ( while sittiing around the >> camp-fire in 1995 ) that they were in a cave in or near Bexar County >> and saw claw marks on the wall, that were made by an animal that >> appeared to be taller than a man and appeared the animal was trying to >> climb out of the cave. I think he said it was a short pit >> entrance, and there were no bones in the cave of such animal. >> >> My fuzzy memory is that in this conversation he mentioned a Chivos Cave, >> but >> I don't know if that was the one he was referring to. >> >> I think he said there were 4 scratch marks on each hand though. >> > > Please reply to [email protected] > Permanent email address is [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
