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[AzuredreamsXT]

How would i go about doing this? The wiki suggests capturing and training them.

[drilltooth]

first step, is to open up your raws and change the line in the gigantic panda entry from [pet_exotic] to [pet] then, find a temperate forest site with a LOT of bambo, and keep your eyes peeled for them, to herd towards your traps.

[Mitchewawa]

Panda's don't make particularly good pets in relation to how hard they are to catch and maintain. You're better off either heading to an untamed wilderness mountain, desert or forest to capture a Giant Eagle, Desert Scorpion or Bear. They don't require constant bamboo feeding and make better pets.

[restricted]

Panda's don't make particularly good pets in relation to how hard they are to catch and maintain. You're better off either heading to an untamed wilderness mountain, desert or forest to capture a Giant Eagle, Desert Scorpion or Bear. They don't require constant bamboo feeding and make better pets.

But unlike pandas if they miss your cage traps you can count any (at least for the first two) dwarves aboveground goodbye. As well, only the bears can be trained for war, so you'd need to use good cage placement for Scorpions and Eagles to have them be effective. However, Scorpions are extremely deadly, seeing as they can wield items in their pincers.

[saltmummy626]

Panda's don't make particularly good pets in relation to how hard they are to catch and maintain. You're better off either heading to an untamed wilderness mountain, desert or forest to capture a Giant Eagle, Desert Scorpion or Bear. They don't require constant bamboo feeding and make better pets.

But unlike pandas if they miss your cage traps you can count any (at least for the first two) dwarves aboveground goodbye. As well, only the bears can be trained for war, so you'd need to use good cage placement for Scorpions and Eagles to have them be effective. However, Scorpions are extremely deadly, seeing as they can wield items in their pincers.

and lets not forget the very fun poison in their tails that melts the brains of any creature unfortunate enough to get stung and survive. IMHO I prefer the scorpions. you cant make them into hunting/war animals, but if you do the traps just right, you wont have to get your dwarves anywhere near them.

[restricted]

Hmm... I feel like testing poison's effects on dragon... brb

Oh, and I should add that once tamed Giant Eagles forget how to fly, making them rather useless.

[drilltooth]

heh, mine didnt; seem to have any trouble flying after training. (of course, I'm using a race with a flier caste, so that has it's own problems..)

[Tevish Szat]

Can giant pandas even self-feed?  I thought they were like elephants in being essentially incapable of doing so.

[Ifeno]

Can giant pandas even self-feed?  I thought they were like elephants in being essentially incapable of doing so.

elephant's don't self feed?  That's news to me.  I have an army of war elephants and i've NEVER fed them.

[JackoftheBox]

I think that elephants are the only ones that die of starvation, Gigantic pandas instead need to use all their time to graze so they don't die to starvation making them kinda useless.

And pets that have been adopted won't need to graze at all, this includes hunting and war animals.

[Loud Whispers]

I've captured a panda, and traded one, in both cases I had to butcher them, as they made terrible traps and gladiator animals

[Tevish Szat]

So, I can have my army of war elephants, they just need to be trained shortly after being tamed (or growing up) and assigned ASAP after training?  That's excellent news and I shall have to prepare an elephant army.

[Loud Whispers]

So, I can have my army of war elephants, they just need to be trained shortly after being tamed (or growing up) and assigned ASAP after training?  That's excellent news and I shall have to prepare an elephant army.

You would have to change their grazer tag in their raws, elephants are one of the few animals where it is actually impossible to keep tame one's of them alive:/

Also, they will turn on you.

[JackoftheBox]

I just realized that pet owners really feed their pets. Always thought that owned pets just didn't need food anymore, so yeah, an elephant will die to starvation as it needs more food than it can eat. Oh the poor dwarf who just tries to keep his pet alive.

[i2amroy]

Rhinos will also starve to death, and Bull Moose/Dralthas are so close to the boundary level that unless you are very lucky as well as having a huge pasture they will still slowly starve to death. Also it is certainly possible for grazer pets to starve to death, I have several immigrant hauler pets starve to death because there was no grass in my dining room and their masters were too busy to feed them.