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[Leonidas]

An incoming Elf caravan had an unfortunate encounter with some goblin ambushers.  I didn't bother to recover the loot.  A month or two later, I got the message:

Iru Cethuthacaraca, Stray Tigerman (Tame) had died from thirst.

I had always thought that being in a cage was like eating Breakfast at Tiffany's: nothing bad could possibly happen to you in there.  But maybe the rules have changed.

Any ideas what happened here?

Edit: It's an old version of Fortress Defense Mod in version 31.16.

Edit: And now one of my dwarves is carrying the Tigerman off for burial.  They don't care about the elf merchants, but the Tigerman gets a coffin of his own.  Very confusing.

[Cyroth]

Tigermen are intelligent creatures, like dwarfs, elves, goblins and humans.
Maybe this makes them dependant on food/water while being in a cage. I know that it's the same with dwarfs, dunno about the other intelligent races. I don't think I've ever had a human prisoner and elves/gobbos are usually executed before they could have gotten hungry.

[Sphalerite]

Cages are less like stasis pods and more like pocket universes.  A creature in a cage won't drown, and will even survive if the cage is dumped in magma, but they will still age, get hungry or thirsty, and can bleed to death or die of infection if they're injured prior to being caged.