The remains obtained in 1862-3 from three to four thousand in number, afford a vivid picture of the animal life of the time in Somerset. They belong to the following animals, the numbers representing the jaws and teeth only, and the implements:-- Man 35 Cave-Hyæna 467 Cave-Lion 15 Cave-Bear 27 Grizzly Bear 11 Brown Bear 11 Wolf 7 Fox 8 Mammoth 30 Woolly Rhinoceros 233 _Rhinoceros hemitœchus_ 2 Horse 401 The Great Urus 16 Bison 30 The Irish Elk 35 Reindeer 30 Red Deer 2 Lemming 1 The remains of these animals were so intermingled that they must have been living together at the same time. They lie large with small, the more with the less dense, and are not in the least degree sorted by water. There is no evidence of the hyæna succeeding to the cave-bear, or the reindeer to the urus, or that the bears came here to die, as in some of the German caves, or that the herbivores fell, or were swept into open fissures, and left their remains, as in the caves of Hutton and Plymouth. On the contrary, the numerous jaws and teeth of hyæna, and the marks of those teeth upon nearly every one of the specimens, show that they alone introduced the remains that were found in such abundance. And they preyed not merely upon horses, uri, and other herbivores, but upon one another (Figs. 92, 93), and they even overcame the cave-bear and lion in their full prime. Some of the bones of the larger animals, and in particular a leg-bone of a gigantic urus, have been broken short across and not bitten through--a circumstance which points towards one of the causes of the vast accumulation of bones in so small a cave. It is well known that wolves and hyænas at the present day are in the habit of hunting in packs, and of forcing their prey over precipices. The Wookey ravine is admirably situated for this mode of hunting, and would not fail to destroy any animal forced into it from the hill-side. It is therefore very probable that the hyænas sometimes caught their prey in this manner. They would not have dared to attack the bears and lions unless these had been disabled. [Illustration: FIG. 91.--Longitudinal Section through D of Fig. 83. Dotted area = bone-bed.]