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[Lida_Brainbroken]

Had a question on this.
Caged a Black bear, and the dwarf civ had no knowledge of them.
But slowing trainning him, they were getting the "Your civ is more knowledgeable on the taming of [Black bears]
Can you get it to a point where you can tame wild animals fully?
[Edit for grammar]

Yes, given enough time and practice, a civ will slowly gain training knowledge and eventually reach "Domesticated" levels.  Every following fortress of the same civ will start with the same knowledge level as the previous one, so if you don't accomplish it in the first one, eventually one of the following settlements will.  I'm not sure if the knowledge crosses into other dwarf civs, though.

[Loud Whispers]

For an extremely low-maintenance but long-term solution, you can just ignore the animal until it dies of old age. Once it does, your butchers will automatically go to the cage, take the corpse to the butcher's shop, and start filleting. Note: Make sure the cage and its contents are not forbidden. Forbidden corpses = a butcher's shop cluttered with things like {prepared camel lung}, which everyone will ignore until it all rots and generates a ton of miasma.

IIRC, animals that die of old age outside a cage cannot be butchered at all.

Unless you necro res them. Then as far as I can tell, anything that would stop you from butchering it is rendered moot. Except the [SAPIENT] tag of course.

[Sutremaine]

Can you get it to a point where you can tame wild animals fully?
[Edit for grammar]

Yes, given enough time and practice, a civ will slowly gain training knowledge and eventually reach "Domesticated" levels.  Every following fortress of the same civ will start with the same knowledge level as the previous one, so if you don't accomplish it in the first one, eventually one of the following settlements will.

Civs can't currently make the jump from Expert to Domesticated, meaning that you'll have to start from wild animals in each fortress. Individual creatures can be fully tamed by training them as children, but you'll never be able to embark with cave crocs or jabberers unless you alter the creature raws.

[Lida_Brainbroken]

Can you get it to a point where you can tame wild animals fully?
[Edit for grammar]

Yes, given enough time and practice, a civ will slowly gain training knowledge and eventually reach "Domesticated" levels.  Every following fortress of the same civ will start with the same knowledge level as the previous one, so if you don't accomplish it in the first one, eventually one of the following settlements will.

Civs can't currently make the jump from Expert to Domesticated, meaning that you'll have to start from wild animals in each fortress. Individual creatures can be fully tamed by training them as children, but you'll never be able to embark with cave crocs or jabberers unless you alter the creature raws.

That explains my failure to ever make that last step.  This is not reflected in the wiki.