The other day I was busy leveling my new baby huntress dwarf, and I got to thinking. Some of these animals drop some pretty strange things. I killed a wolf, and it had pants. What is a wolf doing with pants? Are they from the villager he just ate? Then I killed a boar, and it was holding a small red pouch. What's a boar doing with a pouch anyway? Where would it even put it? I can understand the humanoid enemies carrying such things. But the animals? What's up with that? What are some strange drops you've seen?
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Re: A silly thing to ponder....
Sun, June 8, 2008 - 9:44 PMI think it's interesting when you kill something relatively small, say an owl or bat... and it's carrying a mail chest piece. How'n the Hel does a bat carry around a piece of armor?
I think a boar eating trash it finds might explain some of the odd things they drop. And the crocolisks... I mean, they find entire golfers in gators sometimes.
It kind of reminds me of this:
In a study covering coyotes in Yellowstone National Park in 1937-38, the legendary biologist Adolph Murie recorded the following among “miscellaneous food and non-food times” in 5,086 coyote droppings:
Horse manure
Garbage
Trash
Muskmelon
Apple
Corn refuse
Paper
Canvas-leather glove
Rag
Butter wrapper
Twine
Banana peel
Orange peel
Leather (one piece containing rivet)
Cellophane
Steak bone
Grape seeds
Mouse nest material
Seven inches of curtain (some housewife was probably really mad about that one)
Pear
Prune seed
Match
Two square inches of rubber
Tinfoil
Shoestring
Mud
Paint-covered rag
Eight inches of rope
Three square inches of towel
Lemon rind
Bacon rind
Two pieces of shirt
Canvas
Gunny sack
Isinglass
Botfly larvae
All this was in addition to the usual diet of mammals, birds and invertebrates. In Murie’s study, a coyote was more likely to have eaten a canvas-leather glove than a mushroom." -
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Re: A silly thing to ponder....
Mon, June 9, 2008 - 7:18 AM"In Murie’s study, a coyote was more likely to have eaten a canvas-leather glove than a mushroom."
man...i'm so glad i don't have to worry about those mushrooms....
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