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[malimbar04]

Caught and breed? I cought a single black bear in my last fort, and bought another from the elves. I couldn't train them to war animals, but they were an excellent source of meat for a while.

[toomanysecrets]

Grizzly bears are awesome since they can be war trained although they are certainly not at the top of the "deadliest" list.

[Maxmurder]

Keas....



...dear god the Keas!

... also war hippos

[Hanslanda]

Ravens.

No, they're just a pain in the ass...

Have they even tried killing everyone in your fort yet?!

They're just biding...

Loud Whispers and his raven phobia strike again. Have you considered getting some counseling for your traumatic event? Or possibly not including a raven stockpile in your evil biome fortresses that are righ next to towers?

[Ai Shizuka]

Anyone ever got a huskified giant sperm whale?

Such a...thing could challenge Armok himself, I think.

[Loud Whispers]

Loud Whispers and his raven phobia strike again. Have you considered getting some counseling for your traumatic event? Or possibly not including a raven stockpile in your evil biome fortresses that are righ next to towers?

What else can you do? They're ravens.

;_;

[Oaktree]

Giant Cave Spiders are no great treat either.

I let my tame one take on an unarmed/unarmored goblin while re-building a silk farm.  It got a bite in, and then just bit the goblin's head off.  Very quick acting paralyzing venom.

And right afterwards a goblin siege turned up with eight GCS as an escort unit.  They didn't handle weapon traps well though.  (I think this is the first fortress I've had where the goblins did not have trolls as allied units.  On the other hand, they have a lot of varied mounts (elk birds, giant olms, giant toads, giant rats, giant cave swallows, giant bats, blind cave bears) and their units appear to still get mounts even after their general has appeared and been dispatched.

[MenacesWithSpikes]

I gotta go with Keas.

ANYTHING with the word Kea in it.

They're the new elephants/badgers/carp.

[Shininglight]

Giant Desert Scorpions, for several reasons
-they can steal weapons and shields from your dwarves
-they feel no pain, only hatred
-they're neurotoxin can kill anything with a brain or spine.

They can kill megabeasts with a single attack. Now imagine a cage with 50 in it.

Funny. I've had little trouble with them, I cage all my roosters from my massive egg farming project at my fortress entrance, when the GDS shows up it gets.... feathery, though 20 of my roosters managed to kill 3 GDS' over a period of several years, I'm currently modding chicken battleclaws and armor to take advantage of the bizarre habit of my chickens to brutaly murder GDS.

[Dustylou2]

I can sympathize with Loud Whispers, since I've had ravens bruise the heart and tear the lungs of more than a few dwarves.
Both the giant poisonous insects are quite nasty; giant keas take the cake for "most hated" personally, due to the fine mix of being able to curbstomp multiple dwarves at once, flight meaning that melee military is near useless against them unless indoors, and being able to steal potentially useful things.

[Friendstrange]

What makes an animal hard to kill is not its ferocity, but its size.
Elephants are size 6,000,000, Ogres are size 7,000,000.
Subteranean-wise Cave Dragons are size 15,000,000, the next biggest thing are Blind Cave Ogres at size 7,000,000 and Jabberers at 4,500,000, smaler than an Elephant.

Megabeasts are a different matter. Dragons are size 25,000,000, Rocs and Bronze Colossus are 20,000,00.

But if you want to find the biggest beast of them all look to the deep blue ocean. The Giant Sperm Whale is a whoping size 100,000,00. Way bigger than any dragon, you could build a small nation on top of the things. Give it a means to walk on land via zombification, or worse, huskification and you will have a monster to rival all monsters. Its carcass alone would be enough of a projectile to one-shot bronze colosi.

This is of course, without taking into acount special abilities like poison stingers and webbing. In that regard Giant Desert Scorpions are the deadliest, as well as a Giant Cave Spider that can aim, provided there is a second enemy to take advantage of the webbed victims.