 Due to the features of the fossil, he also believed it likely that "Australopithecus" spent parts of their days searching for food in the trees.At the end of 2008, Clarke published a reconstruction of the circumstances which allowed the fossil to remain so unusually well preserved in contrast to other bones found in the same cave, which apparently had been washed over longer periods of time in their final storage location.The fossil also shows no damage by predators so the assumption can be made that the fossils were not moved to the cave to be fed on by predators.