No bears where I live, but once I went to a guided tour of a cave. The main attraction was paintings from prehistoric people, but one part of the cave had markings from long before humans got there. The cave walls were covered with claw marks from an extinct species of bears.
Not the same cave, but it looked like that : https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffades_d’ours_des_cavernes#/media/Fichier:P1010114mod.jpg
Are you sure that is not early stages of Beech Bark Disease?
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/C7KWNB/beech-bark-disease-on-american-beech-tree-fagus-grandifolia-in-the-C7KWNB.jpgIf you look carefully, you can see the set of claw marks in a regular pattern all the way up the tree.
I didn’t even know those trees made edible fruit!
They’re edible, but you need to cook them first.
How does a bear do that?
I imagine they can digest them just fine
So you don’t need to cook them first?
You need to, bear’s got cheat codes
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing!
