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[Tres]

I'm trying to keep a steady supply for live fire training and for the arena. Will captured male and female goblins breed? What about trolls? Are there any female even since all 6 I captured are male?

[XXSockXX]

There are female trolls but neither trolls nor goblins breed AFAIK.

[Volfgarix]

 If you and girl from squad were catched by enemies, will you plan making babes with female mate? On enemy's view?
 I don't know about trolls.

[crazysheep]

AFAIK captured enemy intelligent creatures will not breed.

[weenog]

I've never seen a non-female troll in dozens of fortresses.  I was beginning to think they were a one-gender species.

[Garath]

it's been theorized that if you capture a married couple of goblins they could breed... It's never been done though

[Quietust]

I've looked at the relevant logic in an old version (0.23.130.23a), and there were exactly 2 cases for units becoming pregnant:
1. The (female) unit is a tameable creature (i.e. [PET] or [PET_EXOTIC]+DungeonMaster), there's at least one adult male of that species on the map, and the population limit for that species hasn't been reached (50 total, or more than 3 child per adult). Gestation time is 200000 frames (about 6 months).
2. The (female) unit is of your fortress's primary race (i.e. a Dwarf) and is a member of your fortress, has a (living) male spouse, and there are no obstacles (locked doors, floodgates, pits, etc.) preventing them from pathing to each other. Gestation time is 300000 frames (about 9 months).

I've checked this same logic in a more recent version (don't think it was 0.34.11, though) and it seems to be mostly the same (aside from the exotic pet logic, anyways), though I don't know if there are any other special cases (and I don't know how egg hatching works).