Traces due to fréquentation by animals are many and varied in the Chauvet cave (bones, beds, prints and other marks on the ground, scratches and polished areas on the walls); they overlap evidence of human activity (hearths, art work, the manipulation of bones). The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) is the emblematic animal in this cavity: traces are omnipresent throughout the galleries. Thefaunal list is only apparently varied (9 species of carnivorous animals, 5 of ungulates), as the cave bear represents 99% of the identified palaeontological remains. The presence of other cave- loving Carnivora (Canis lupus, Crocuta crocuta, Vulpes vulpes) does nonetheless raise interesting taphonomic and anthropozoological issues (chronology of the Carnivora- ...