Numerous traces of bear visits have been found in caves. They generally correspond to claw marks on walls or to cave bear wallows. Sometimes, these clues are not always well preserved and do not allow the confident identification of the presence of bears. The differential preservation of clue on limestone walls can hamper speleologists and paleontologists in their diagnoses. One must not interpret the absence of claw marks on the rock walls of a cave as an absence of bears. In addition to condensation‐corrosion, biocorrosion, due in particular to the pervasive presence of bats in a cave, should be considered as a significant process responsible for the removal of traces on limestone walls. After briefly presenting the speleogenetic processe...