The Bears

Today we saw Cave of Forgotten Dreams.  Quite good.  Yay for the paleolithic cave artists!  I learned more about cave bears.  They used to be all over the place.  Why are they now extinct?  Why?
Before the movie, we took a hike on Trail 7 in McCormick's Creek.  McCormick's Creek was our first state park, established in 1916.  We never walked on Trail 7 before, but it's a good one.  Moderate.  2 miles.  Takes you down to the White River.  We made up a few songs about the White River, and tonight I found out that it flows to the Wabash.  Anyway, the Paleolithic cave artists were surrounded by wildlife, and they painted animals all over their caves.  Everywhere they looked they could see cave bears, as I've previously mentioned, wooly rhinos, horses, lions, bisons.  We're talking about 30,000 years ago, fyi.  Today on our walk, we saw some bugs, and a few birds.  That's it.  The predators are no longer roaming about my friends.  And that's probably why I don't have good wall art in my house.