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[Vanguard Warden]

I managed to get lucky, and the giant eagle on my map dived into a cage trap baited with a puppy on a chain. It's even a FEMALE giant eagle. If another wild giant eagle shows up and it's male, will I have to capture it to start breeding tame giant eagles, or will my eagle start breeding as soon as it shows up?

[NecroRebel]

As long as your female giant eagle is uncaged, it will breed with any male of its species, no matter how distant and no matter if their tamed status is different. The young will even be tame (or not) depending on whether their mother is tame (or not).

[Vanguard Warden]

Awesome. I left it chained up in a hallway somewhere, so it would stop trying to fly into the magma pit. If I found the giant eagle on my map, that means that ANOTHER giant eagle will come off the edge of the map eventually, right?

[Derakon]

Depends on if the eagle was a feature creature (i.e. associated with a map feature like a chasm or bottomless pit) or a wilderness creature. Wilderness creatures wander in from the edge, and if you get one eagle that way you'll probably get another. Feature creatures never respawn in the current version, though.

I don't know offhand if giant eagles can be feature creatures. However, if the eagle wasn't on the map when you arrived then it's not a feature creature.

[Vanguard Warden]

It was here at embark, but I think I have the right biome for it. The only features I have are an underground river and a magma pipe, neither of which are ever associated with eagles as far as I am aware.

[qoonpooka]

now you're just waiting for mounts...

[KenboCalrissian]

Giant eagles are wanderers.  And yes, it's been answered but I did exactly the same thing when I caught a female giant eagle.  Locked her up 7 z-levels underground, and through the magic of spores, a wandering male giant eagle flew by overhead and she got pregnant.

[cortar]

i have an additional question, if you put a breeding pair of animals in a cage will they have children? i looked over the wiki and i couldnt find any place where it says they can or can't.

[silhouette]

they cant breed in cages but can birth in cages.

[Astramancer]

They can't.  Animals who get caged pregnant will still have their babies, but they cannot become pregnant while caged, no matter how many of the opposite gender are in there with them.

[Vanguard Warden]

Cages aren't so much cages are they are quantum stasis storage devices. They have infinite capacity, the things inside can't interact with each other or anything outside, and you can flood a room with a cage in it and the creatures inside won't drown. I think you can even flood a magma-safe cage room with magma and the creatures will be fine, though I haven't personally tested that.