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[_DivideByZero_]

One cc of water is equivalent to one gram--but anyhow, it's normally grams because it's very difficult to find the volume of an animal online. Can you tell me the volume of a giraffe? Whereas the average human weight is around 70~ kg.

Also, the wiki agrees with me
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Size

[G-Flex]

The wiki is wrong; I've argued with people about this before. Weight of a creature is determined by material, not by defined size. If you were to turn all of a dwarf's bodily tissues into gold, he would weigh more despite having the same "size".

One size unit is roughly equivalent to a gram for creatures, but only because creatures have roughly the same density as water.


I'm going to test this myself in a moment.

[edit]
Test dwarf 1, normal tissues and materials: 91kg corpse
Test dwarf 2, many tissue materials given 100 times normal density: 6809kg corpse

So, yes, hypothesis confirmed. I'll be editing the wiki article.

[_DivideByZero_]

Ah, that's quite interesting. Thanks for doing the research.