The claw marks are from a bear climbing to the top of this beech tree to get the beechnuts.
The claw marks are from a bear climbing to the top of this beech tree to get the beechnuts.
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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
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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.jpg-
If you look carefully, you can see the set of claw marks in a regular pattern all the way up the tree.
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Fascinating! Thanks for sharing!
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