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[freeformschooler]

Poor Toady. Talk about a lot of stuff to implement before the release 

Caveat: sponsoring an animal puts it "at the top of the list of animals to be added to the game". It does not mean it will be in the next release.

I never said it did. I just said that there's a lot of stuff to implement before the next release.

[Mel_Vixen]

So which animal isnt taken yet?

[Cruxador]

So which animal isnt taken yet?

All of them - multiple people can sponsor each one.

[monk12]

So which animal isnt taken yet?

All of them - multiple people can sponsor each one.

That is, in fact, how this works. Animals with the most votes are most likely to be chosen. So go give some love to the Harp Seals.

[Ves]

I'm tempted to, if only to have a Dwarf in a strange mood create a Harp Seal Leather Harp.

[Areyar]

Ack! Now I have to change my vote back to King crab. 

[Khamero]

I still say we go for Ospreys and just enjoy ourselves when toady makes them hunt. Start a fort in a carp-rich area with ospreys and then just watch em get carries high in the sky and eaten. ^_______________________^

I mean, Ospreys live almost anywhere (not antarctica apparently) and has a diet composed of 99% fish.

Also, giant ospreys whould be pretty awesome as well. its diet consists of 99% drowning dwarves. =D

[Mel_Vixen]

  THX for the info. Anyway since i didnt sea Leopard seals (like this gal) i decided to side with the otters scratch that! Go Leopard seals!

edit: sponsored 15 bucks the only spare money i have atm so toady make the best out of it.
 

[takaratiki]

Donation is in the mail, I hope for herds of Capybara roaming the swaying grass riverbanks, swimming about playfully until a Leopard (or a dwarf, because these things are the rodent equivalent of fish fries on the webbed foot (so much so that the Catholic Church qualifies them as fish in regards to Friday red meat prohibitions (weird))) lunges into their midst and stains the river with their blood. Dwarf fortress, like Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, but with more obsidian. And dwarfs.

[drvoke]

Panda for their rare fur and meat.  Capybara for their delightful saunter.  I can't decide. :/

[Areyar]

Capybara is a giant furry marmot, stock DF. Giant panda is just a ... giant panda.
More fun to describe than capibara. 
This is a Panda. It is a pascifist animal that eats only longland grass shoots. It is very fat and its fur is white with large black spots on its backside, ears and eyes. It looks like a panda!
Capibara eat waterweeds or so iirc.
Why not a chupacabra? (Need a natural enemy for those domestic goats, no?) 

[caknuck]

A few questions:

• Are bison one of the 16 domestic animals about to make their debut?
• If armadillos are added, can we craft their shells?
• When we make our selection, can we suggest a [PREF STRING]?
• If anteaters are added, can Toady code it so that they spawn/gather around anthills?
• Any chance of the late addition of an "Extinct" category? (I would consider sponsoring a trilobite. Or a megatherium.)
• How long before someone implements a blue whale breeding operation? I, for one, look forward to seeing "blue whale blubber [3288]"

I think I need to Paypal the Brothers Adams some cash.

[Glowcat]

Why not a chupacabra? (Need a natural enemy for those domestic goats, no?)

Some more obscure mythological creatures would be fun. I created a DF Bunyip once but it came out more like a demonic sabertooth seal than anything particularly frightening.

[QuakeIV]

Why not a chupacabra? (Need a natural enemy for those domestic goats, no?)

Some more obscure mythological creatures would be fun. I created a DF Bunyip once but it came out more like a demonic sabertooth seal than anything particularly frightening.

Thats pretty frightening.

[Footkerchief]

• When we make our selection, can we suggest a [PREF STRING]?

You can, but it's not a formal part of the sponsorship process and there's no guarantee it'll be used.

• If anteaters are added, can Toady code it so that they spawn/gather around anthills?

Out of curiosity, will these animals be implemented with all the expected bells and whistles, such as spitting cobras spitting venom, and termites eating wood?

I'm going to do my best [...] some of the animals imply more work than others, and I can't guarantee absolute satisfaction, but I am dedicated to getting things up to speed, and I'm all for adding new tags and things.

• Any chance of the late addition of an "Extinct" category? (I would consider sponsoring a trilobite. Or a megatherium.)

The list is big enough that other categories probably won't be added, but:

I've been a megatherium fan forever.  I think I learned about them from my fossil books in elementary school.  They are quite likely to make it in at some point.