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[thvaz]

I have a chasm on my new fortress, and I in the very beggining I noted that chasm critters (mainly naked mole dogs and antmen) were dying for apparent no reason. It looks like they aren't falling, and I couldn't see what was killing them. I don't know if it is a bug or feture though - maybe they are dying of hunger/thirst;

[Bouchart]

I've seen this happen in 33c with ratmen and couldn't figure out why it happened.  I thought that Iron Men might attack other creatures but it doesn't seem to be the case.

[JoRo]

I had this happen in my first fort, not sure on the version.  Some of the creatures were stuck on inaccessible ledges along the chasm, so I think they may have been dying of hunger/thirst.  I'd scroll along it and every now and then see a ball of miasma.
Also, the cave river gradually swept all the frogmen/lizardmen/mudmen to their doom.  I lucked out hard there, because my poorly designed and defended for would've folded like a house of cards if enough creatures had started coming up.  The single frogman that survived the rapids managed to kill several dwarves as it was.

[thvaz]

Maybe they are dying of old age, as someone told me. Chasm critters usually have a short life span, and as they don't reproduce, most tend to die in a few years. I would like to see this changed, though.

[Akroma]

maybe they spawned right above a chasm tile and fell down ?

[thvaz]

No, they were previously in small caves on the sides of the chasm.