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[Holy Mittens]

So, I've had a bunch of animals in a group cage for many many many years. Most of them are children waiting to grow into adults to be slaughtered for their precious flesh, bones, and skin.

However, it appears that one crazed rhino was unwilling to await the imminent death of he and his siblings as he lead them (and one impressionable black teen) in a mass suicide:



And just to prove that this happened inside a cage, here are their corpses:



I'm pretty sure I did nothing to change their situation. My butcher was taking out other animals to slaughter them, but I've done that plenty of times before and never seen anything like... this.

[Footkerchief]

Temperature changes can kill creatures in cages, and due to the current bizarre nature of temperature damage, it shows up as bleeding to death.  Did this happen at the onset of winter?

[Holy Mittens]

No. Also, I am in a tropical biome where I only ever get "[Season] has arrived on the calendar".

Some of my animals have taken weather damage (the alligators I bought from traders), but never past light gray. And I've had a breeding set of both white and black rhinos sitting outside of the cages for years on end with no issues. Also dozens upon dozens of rhinos inside the cages for seasons on end with no issue.

[Footkerchief]

Did all the deaths happen simultaneously?  What mods are you using?  Did you do any additional modding around the time they died?

[Holy Mittens]

Yes, they all happened simultaneously. I am using a bunch of mods, some the Dig Deeper stuff, but a bunch of it my own homebrew stuff.

I had not changed anything around the time of their deaths and have not changed anything since I genned this world.

[Footkerchief]

Odd.  I still suspect it might have been a freak variation in temperature that killed them, but who knows.  Let us know if it happens again.