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[CRM114]

So I created a meeting area in DF2014 and I noticed that there were a bunch of vermin in there. I started looking around for any unattended food items or undumped refuse but everything looked squeaky clean.

Then I noticed as my livestock moved around that the vermin were tracking close to them. It appears that my pigs and turkeys are the cause, and penning them in a separate area seems to have cleared out my meeting room of the filthy vermin.

Now what I'm wondering is, whether this is something which always happened and I just never noticed or is it a new mechanic?

[Broseph Stalin]

Certain animal interactions include rooting. Pigs and turkeys scare up bugs and things to eat I remember the interactions from the old version but not specifically the vermin.

[Melting Sky]

Somebody else noticed their pig leaving a trail of lice and similiar vermin behind in another .40 thread. I think this may be a new behavior because I have never heard of or noticed this before. It's pretty cool.

[Mlamlah]

My own experiences also suggest that animals track in vermin. I learned this when i removed a pasture as the first step in relocating my animals to a better location, they beelined straight for my dining hall, leaving a trail of lizards and slugs behind them where i was otherwise vermin free. This was a problem as i had forgotten to get any cats.

[NullForceOmega]

I'm quite certain that this is the rooting behavior at work, I've watched it happen in forts from 34 and 40, and it only occurs near animals with the rooting interaction in the RAWs.