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[satan]

Ten friendly kangaroo people climbed up a tree, jumped on my sky bridge, entered my fort and seem to have settled down in my underground forest. I have locked them inside so that they cannot escape. What attracted them to my fort? And more importantly, what should I do with them?

The kangaroo men on my bridge:
http://imgur.com/FY6oLNI

The kangaroo men entering my underground forest:
http://imgur.com/ZhJKxdn

[thegoatgod_pan]

Try to make one into your mayor: mayors like that don't give mandates

[Insert_Gnome_Here]

Do they come up on units screen as wild animal or friendly?

Also, if you put image tags around your links to the images themselves (add.png to the link) , the images display in your post, like this:

[Corona688]

Friendly, OP said.

I wonder if they joined your civillization or something, but I didn't think that update was in yet!  Maybe your civillization was conquered by kangaroos, or vice versa :p  Clearly something to look up in legends mode!

[Immortal-D]

Since they are friendly, the only way to cage them is by dropping them onto the trap.  From there... hmm.  Can you chain up friendlies?  Would be pretty funny to have a guard kangaroo.

[Salmeuk]

This is sort of like when seven mountain gnomes shimmied their way past my marble walls and guard wolverines and camped out in my dining hall, drinking booze and scaring the animals. Oddly enough, my dwarves felt no fear from the presence of the gnomes, though my dogs managed to rip one to pieces.

[Skullsploder]

Perhaps they killed a forgotten beast or titan or minotaur or somesuch? I have a blind cave ogre that punched a forgotten beast to death that has a name and that my dwarves refuse to shoot at.

[Thisfox]

Friendlies can be odd. I don't see any harm in leaving them be to see what they'll do next. Might want to have an alternate entrance to the trading post though, just in case...

I'm reminded of the charming Pixar-like plump helmet men expedition.

edit: Poorly crafted link fixed.

[Corona688]

I have belatedly perused the wiki on this topic and there is a giant list of what animals and animalpeople are hostile or not.  Kangaroo men, flying squirrel people, and most of the new kinds of animalmen are all "no".  Some of the older kinds of animalpeople, like antmen and batmen, are listed separately as "variable", which in my experience means "hostile unless something weird happened in worldgen".

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Creature

Almost no animals are hostile except things like badgers and alligators.  (Having hostile tags and !!RAGE!! tags explains a lot about badgers, too.)  It might be a bug at this point to have so many friendly animalmen, but I kind of like it.  Too bad you can't trade with them or anything, but I suppose that's coming.  So I guess they're acting like animals right now and going where they please, and not being hunted because, being thinking humanoids, your hunters don't consider them edible.

Dwarves don't seem to spook at animals as much in general anymore.  They will obviously spook at hostile animals but seem to know the difference now.

[Corona688]

I wonder if these animalmen are derived from a template.  Kea men are thieving bastards, badger men (though not listed as hostile) apparently attack and rage.