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Author Topic: Breeding Stock From Elves  (Read 1998 times)

VerdantSF

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Re: Breeding Stock From Elves
« Reply #15 on: April 26, 2010, 11:54:54 am »

Also, any ideas what I should do with all the tame monarch butterflies, toads, bluejays, and fluffly mumpkins (or whatever they are called) that I seem to be accumulating?

Sell them :)!

Mindmaker

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Re: Breeding Stock From Elves
« Reply #16 on: April 26, 2010, 11:58:12 am »

Come to think of it, the only time I've seen them breed is War Grizzly Bears, which I had to retrain myself...  Maybe only animals you train/retrain can breed in this context?

My pair of grizlly bear, which I trianed to war animals, seems to be breeding fine too.
I already have two small bears.
And I bought them from the elves too.
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monk12

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Re: Breeding Stock From Elves
« Reply #17 on: April 26, 2010, 12:23:01 pm »

There should really be an Animal Husbandry skillset. Pandas not breeding? Get them some panda porn! Giant Eagles don't want to breed anyway? FORCE THEM

Daenyth

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Re: Breeding Stock From Elves
« Reply #18 on: April 26, 2010, 12:52:52 pm »

Will the various types of gibbons interbreed? I have about 5-6 different types but no pairs. Do have a chimpanzee pair though. A few big cats but no pairs. Waiting on the next elves who want to come for their yearly bath.
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Yiab

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Re: Breeding Stock From Elves
« Reply #19 on: April 30, 2010, 03:04:12 pm »

Something's quite weird. Of the large number of animals I've purchased from the elves over the last 4-5 years, only two of them have given birth.
1) A two-humped camel gave birth very soon after I purchased her. Since this was the first birth I'd seen from a purchased animal and it was so fast, I assumed that she was pregnant before being put in a cage.
2) A black bear just gave birth after being chained to the same spot for at least 3 years. The weird thing here is that I have no male black bears (other than the two she just birthed), nor have there been any on the map as far as I know. In other worse, unless black bears have an extremely long gestation period, I've had black bear parthenogenesis.
Meanwhile I've been getting a regular stream of young from all my domestic animals, but nothing from rhesus macaques, giant jaguars, warthogs, groundhogs, alligators, giant desert scorpions, deer, vultures, buzzards, giant eagles, wolves, jaguars, giant leopards, foxes, cougars, and raccoons - for each of which I have at least one male and one female on chains/ropes in adjacent 1x1 squares and they have been there more than a year.
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