A cyclops visited my fort uninvited. The access bridge was luckily raised at the time, as I learned my lesson from when a wererhinoceros came. I figured out I'd wait it out, let it become bored and leave. It kept killing various woodland animals that were passing through. Eventually I decided to trap it into a cage instead, placed an order for 5 cages so I could make an unavoidable row of cage traps behind the bridge. All preparations were going according to plan, traps were in place, lever was pulled, bridge was lowered. All that remained was for the cyclops to come and fall into one of the traps. So I waited. And waited. And waited. It was taking its sweet time, so I decided to take a look at it. I couldn't find it in its usual place on the units list and after a little while I found out that it was dead. It wasn't killed in combat, it just kinda... Died. I don't know why. I salvaged following info from the combat log:
It looks like it got hit by something and bled out afterwards. It is unrelated to the turkey, that happened about 20 days before, according to the log.
Here is the body itself:
Looks like it started bleeding in a middle of nowhere, walked about 25 tiles and died.
So, the question is: Why did the cyclops die?
(Bonus fact: an elven caravan came during cyclops' stay. The cyclops ignored it, it looks like that elven "at peace with wildlife" feature involves cyclopses as well.)