v0.34:Elephant

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Elephant

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Urist likes elephants for their strength.
Biome
Any Tropical Forest Tropical Shrubland
Variations
Elephant
Attributes
· War animals · Hunting animals · Grazer · Exotic mount
Tamed Attributes
Pet value	500
Grazer:	xxx
· Breeding
Trainable:  Hunting   War
Size
Birth:	500,000 cm3
Mid:	2,500,000 cm3
Max:	5,000,000 cm3
Age
Adult at:	10
Max age:	50-70
Butchering returns (Value multiplier ×5)
Food items
Meat	36-219
Fat	13-58
Brain	4-6
Heart	2-3
Lungs	8-12
Intestines	14-19
Liver	4-6
Kidneys	4-6
Tripe	4-6
Sweetbread	2-3
Spleen	2-3
Raw materials
Bones	49-67
Skull	1
Ivory	3
Skin	Raw hide

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A huge, hairless mammal, found grazing in grasslands in groups. It eats plants which it lifts up with its long trunk. When angered, it will attack with its long tusks.

Elephants are creatures that are trainable into war or hunting elephants by a dwarf with the animal trainer labor enabled.

Being the largest land animals besides megabeasts, they are sure to make a good choice to train and put in your military. Their sheer size means that they pack a huge blunt force, making them good against pretty much anything, including well-armored goblins. Known in past releases as a cold, emotionless and highly effective dwarf killing machine, with blood eternally dripping from their ivory tusks that besieged and became the terror of many a fortress. (Size numbers used to equal combat bonuses, to damage and damage resistance. Now it's just more and thicker tissues.)

Elven caravans may occasionally bring them pre-tamed (if they have settlements in the right locations), but if you embark in their native biome they can also be caught in cage traps and tamed by one of your dwarves with the assistance of an animal trainer. See Animal Training for how this is done, and for a list of other trainable creatures.

If you plan on breeding elephants, note that elephant calves take a very long time to mature, and pregnant elephants will sometimes give birth to triplets. Also, all, or at least most, elephants will follow the animal trainer who tamed them. This is very effective if you train them into war elephants and make the trainer into a recruit. Wherever the squad would be, a massive army of war elephants would follow, making quick work of any goblin ambushes.

Even in death, elephants are wonderful creatures; once butchered, their products are worth five times as much as those of more boring animals (like cows), and their great size means that there will be a lot of products.

Admired for their strength.

Bugs

Tame elephants are currently bugged, and will nearly inevitably die of starvation because they can't eat enough grass in time. In theory, they should be able to eat fast enough to barely survive; however, this requires infinitely-sized pastures of dense grass to be successful.^Bug:4113

Raws

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