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[pushy]

This has happened a few times to me now - I've started up a fortress which has come with a few pets and the animals dragging the wagon. I haven't taken any horses except the one that was pulling the wagon, and she has just given birth to two foals without a male horse ever setting hoof on the map. Do female animals give birth even without a partner or something?

[Skanky]

They can mate with animals traders bring, regardless of distance or such. Might that have happened?

[pushy]

Nope, definitely not. I had neglected to post this the first time I experienced it because I thought that may be a possibility (though I was pretty certain the dwarven caravan brought donkeys or mules, not horses), but in this game the dwarven caravan didn't arrive until over a month later (and as it's still my first year, I obviously haven't yet encountered elves or humans). The horse gave birth to two foals and the only animals that had been on the map at all were 3 dogs, 1 cat (pets I brought with me), the horse itself, 1 camel (pets that dragged the wagon to my settlement location), a couple of creatures in the magma pit and a little group of groundhogs on the other side of the mountain.

[Draco18s]

I wouldn't be surprised to find that the first animal you take with you (per species) is female, and if no males are brought, then that female is marked as pregnant.

[Dame de la Licorne]

quote:Originally posted by Draco18s:
<STRONG>I wouldn't be surprised to find that the first animal you take with you (per species) is female, and if no males are brought, then that female is marked as pregnant.</STRONG>

Afaik, this is not true, since I tend to start with either males or females (if only one is brought) and the females never give birth until after a male of the same species appears on the map.

[Draco18s]

quote:Originally posted by Dame de la Licorne:
<STRONG>Afaik, this is not true, since I tend to start with either males or females (if only one is brought) and the females never give birth until after a male of the same species appears on the map.</STRONG>

Then I am wrong, but you have to admit that it is a logical assumtion:
If the player starts with one, give them a way to reproduce: make it pregnant to start

[Dame de la Licorne]

It would be logical, but I've never had it happen.

[Wood Gnome]

i ended up with one camel when i started my last game, the dwarven caravan didn't have any camels, and the silly animal has given birth twice without there being any adult male camels ANYWHERE.

it caught my attention the first time it happened, because i noticed that i only had one camel and thought about acquiring another so they could breed, but she did it on her own.  the second time she had calves i thought perhaps she had mated with her own offspring and checked my animals list.  nope, the previous young were still young, not adults.

i suspect she's having a clindestine affair with one of my bulls or stallions...