Cave Bear guards Tipitseto Cave

[L Roebuck]

Bear from Antiquity to Guard Rare Bat and Insect Cave Species in Bulgaria
Balkan Travellers

10 December | A skeleton model of a long-extinct cave bear will stand guard in the Tipitseto cave in the Bulgarian Rhodopi Mountain to guard rare animal species from visitors, regional media reported. The cave was used as a shelter by people in antiquity and its walls are covered in drawings of hunting scenes. Now, a colony of a few rare bat species occupies it, along with cave butterflies and grasshoppers.

Tipitseto was one of the 18 caves recently explored by archaeologists around the Rhodopi Mountains in south-western Bulgaria. In it, and in four other caves, they found definite traces of human habitation dating from antiquity.

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[kenredux]

Cave butterflies? Now there's a pretty thought.
An ersatz Pleistocene bear guarding bats and butterflies?
Wow! Disney reaches Bulgaria!

Maybe Lynn, something was lost in the translation.

[L Roebuck]

Um, it was already translated.

[kenredux]

pretzlgirl said:

Um, it was already translated.

Um, I see.
Well then Lynn, maybe some of the MEANING was lost back during the ACT of translation.

Presumably butterflies diverged from moths by becoming diurnal where their bright colors could be seen by all creatures blessed with color vision.

So butterflies might decorate the mouth of these caves, but on the other hand, drab moths might be flopping about inside these caves in the dark.

It would be nice if we the readers knew which.