Seasonality of use of Za Hájovnou Cave by bears and lions

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14446/AMNP.2014.103" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.14446/AMNP.2014.103</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14446/AMNP.2014.103" target="_blank" >10.14446/AMNP.2014.103</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Seasonality of use of Za Hájovnou Cave by bears and lions

Original language description

Dental cementum from lions (Panthera fossilis) and bears (Ursus deningeri) found in Za Hájovnou Cave in Javoříčko Karst were studied. In order to determine the reasons why bears and cave lions crawled into the cave, tooth cement increments were analysed.I used thin sections of the tooth roots of these mammals to determine the seasonality of the death. The tooth samples were taken from different parts of the cave complex: Chodba naděje, Kostnice II, Narozeninová chodba and Propástka 1. These data indicate that bears mostly sought out this cave as a place to hibernate. The exception was one specimen which died there between spring and summer, probably as the result of illness or injury. Five bears died in the early stages of hibernation and seven duringwinter. In the case of the cave lions (Panthera fossilis), these were predominantly young and thus inexperienced and were therefore probably attracted by the bear carcasses in the caves. It is highly likely that these carcasses attracted

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B - Historia Naturalis

ISSN

0036-5343

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

70

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

4

Pages from-to

103-106

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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