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[blue emu]

I think my Alligator is sick. 

Briefly... I caught an Alligator in a Cage Trap. When my Dungeon-Master arrived, I tamed it. I started feeding it captured Goblins (obviously...). Naturally, I stripped and disarmed them first.

It killed the first one, and earned a name... CrazedBrew... but during the fight, it apparently took some bruising (light grey wounds) to its head, including a concussion (brain). I tried to feed it another, but it didn't want it... it just ran around the room wildly, without actually biting the Goblin... I had to send in a Military to kill it. At that point, I stopped trying to feed it Goblins, and just let it hang out wherever it wanted.

Ever since then, CrazedBrew the Alligator has been going downhill steadily. Without even being involved in any more combats, it now has light grey wounds EVERYWHERE on its body, inside and out. More than two screens worth of wounds, including Eyes, Kidneys, Heart, Lungs, etc.

These wounds just seemed to appear spontaneously... I'm pretty sure no-one has been whacking on my Alligator, and it was only lightly wounded in THREE spots during that first Gobbo fight.

Any ideas?

[Sysice]

The temperature, probably. Was it outside at any point, and what temperature is your map?

[blue emu]

It was outside briefly... but the temperature is fine. It's Warm (but not Hot) all year round. My outdoor Ponds never dry out or freeze.

Could CrazedBrew be getting dehydrated? He's free to go wherever he likes (ie: not chained up), but he spends all his time in the Cafeteria.

Should I chain him up and dump buckets of water on him (designate him as a Pond)?

[dogstile]

animals don't need food or water

what's happening to your alligator seems temperature based though, it really does

[Canadark]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOhRe19rROA&feature=related

Alligators don't do well outside of their habitat. It can be dangerous.

[Auldrin]

Actually, they really don't. I remember a post a few weeks ago where somebody was having alligators end up randomly wounded, it was concluded that it was probably the wrong type of water or something. I don't really remember Can't remember the outcome of the thread, but the OP was worried it'd become unable to breed.

[smjjames]

Actually, they really don't. I remember a post a few weeks ago where somebody was having alligators end up randomly wounded, it was concluded that it was probably the wrong type of water or something. I don't really remember Can't remember the outcome of the thread, but the OP was worried it'd become unable to breed.

I was seeing the same thing with my Saltwater Crocs. In fact, in my last game when I dumped a saltwater croc into the river to make it take care of some fish, most of the light grey wounds healed instantly (except for those that don't heal normally, like the heart, brain, etc) when it hit the water. Soon after it came out of the water, the light grey wounds returned. I think it has something to do with heat stress since the water cools off the croc/gator. I don't see it on wild ones that come on my map, but then again, they don't stay out of water for very long.

[Quietust]

It's probably partially due to alligators lacking a [HOMEOTHERM] (being cold-blooded) or any [LAYERING] (to prevent them from temperature extremes)

[smjjames]

Yea, technically they should be right at home in hot and scorching climates, but because of their amphibious nature, they are more prone to dessication and heat stress than most reptiles.

[slink]

Perhaps the BIOME statements have something to do with it?  They are all swamps, marshes, and rivers.  The saltwater croc has freshwater, brackish, and saltwater as biomes, by the way.

[Grendus]

Sounds like a lack of water problem. I would suggest you post this in the bugs forum, creatures who need to do certain things to survive (like crocs going underwater) need to keep doing that once they're tamed. He's being a normal tamed animal and hanging around in a meeting zone.

[Auldrin]

You could make a pond and dump him in it.

[smjjames]

Or they could just make use of any available water on the map.

[Auldrin]

Yeah that's all well and good in the next version, but for now a pond would work.

[dogstile]

Yeah that's all well and good in the next version, but for now a pond would work.

i can imagine it now, a pond full of snapping crocodiles, a hatch for the liason to stand on, and a lever to be pulled when he makes the wrong offer

serves ya right for telling me we can't chop wood ya pansy elves!