A silly thing to ponder....

topic posted Sun, June 8, 2008 - 7:24 PM by  Munk
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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Munk
  • Re: A silly thing to ponder....

    Sun, June 8, 2008 - 9:44 PM
    I 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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