In the newly launched travel magazine Nowhere: Travel Stories, noted nature and travel writer David Quammen, author of The Song of the Dodo, Monster of God, and The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, journals about Romania during September 2000, when he was researching brown bears:
“Just inside the entry, as you walk a concrete catwalk, you begin passing skulls, femurs and other bones of Ursus spelaeus (and 100 lei coins tossed down by visitors), the cave bear, littering the floor, left just where they’ve lain (so we’re told) for 17,000 years. Some are iced-over with calcium carbonate drippings & cemented to the floor. In all, our guide says, remnants of 141 bears were found.”
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