MUMMIYA, Koh Akhur 1 (Ghar)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

The first Ghar Mummiya on a flank of the hill Kouh Akhour (Koh Akhur?) is a rift cave (note 1). SITUATION: Below the cave –>Koh Akhur near Kahdanak (note 2), 6.5 km in a direct line south-south-west of Farah town (note 3). CAVE DESCRIPTION: The cave consists of fissures and water-worn passages. By a low entrance along a broad fissure one enters into a descending 19 m-crawl between a vaulted ceiling and massive rock floor. At the bottom, and on the right-hand side, is a passage which ends collapsed after a few metres but on the left is a bifurcation: a tube to the right ends after some four or five metres but a narrow passage on the left (keyword: outlook) descends an unexplored passage. The cave is dry and contains little bat guano and lots of porcupine excrements. Concretions [formations, secondary calcite deposits] are absent. CAVE CLIMATE: An air temperature of 32°C was measured on 25th April 1958 in the entrance and 27°C in the interior. CAVE LIFE: Bat guano hints to Chiroptera, prcupine's excrements to Hystrix. LINDBERG (1958: 125) recorded and collected Coleoptera (Ptinida, larval Dermestida?), Neuroptera (larval stage of Crocinae), Arachnida (Araneida).rcupine's excrements to Hystrix. LINDBERG (1958: 125) recorded and collected Coleoptera (Ptinida, larval Dermestida?), Neuroptera (larval stage of Crocinae), Arachnida (Araneida).