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Giant orca

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Giant orca
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Urist likes giant orcas for their coloration.
Portrait

No portrait

Biome

Variations

Orca - Orca man - Giant orca

Attributes
Alignment: Savage

· Aquatic · Exotic mount · Beaching

Tamed Attributes
Pet value 500

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Not hunting/war trainable 

Size
Birth: 1,440,000 cm3
Mid: 20,000,000 cm3
Max: 40,000,000 cm3

Age
Adult at: 1
Max age: 50-90
Butchering returns

Food items

Meat 1240-1370
Fat 260-300
Brain 100-120
Heart 50-60
Lungs 200-230
Intestines 325-350
Liver 105-120
Kidneys 100-120
Tripe 100-120
Sweetbread 50-60
Eyes 4
Spleen 50-60

Raw materials

Bones 310-340
Skull 1
Skin Raw hide
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A gigantic monster in the shape of an orca.

Giant orcas are big - really big. Of all the creatures in Dwarf Fortress, only the giant sperm whale is larger. A single specimen can feed a fortress for years and keep bone carvers very busy, but giant orcas appear in groups of 3-9. If that massive bounty isn't enough to motivate your dwarves to leave dry land, you're in luck: giant orcas are also prone to beaching themselves on shore, leaving a corpse ripe for butchering. Giant orcas can prove very valuable to any fort on a savage ocean. Dwarves in a terrifying biome should fear them as well - zombie orcas may crawl up on dry land.

Some dwarves like giant orcas for their coloration and great jumps, though one imagines that they admire both from quite a distance.