Take the tour ×  I've started acquiring animals to breed and use
for food / hunting, but they keep starving. How do I feed
captured/caged animals?  share|improve this question Which
animals? Elephants and Rhinos are literally too big to survive.
Even eating every turn, they will still slowly starve to death.
Draltha also have a tendency to starve, but they can sometimes,
barely, squeak by. A long way from the murderous Carp and
Elephant-plagued nightmares of Dwarf Fortress past. –  Raven
Dreamer Mar 29 '11 at 23:19 @Raven Dreamer, btw, how to see if
some animal is a bit hungry? I don't want to see starving
effects only when they already almost dead. –  Nakilon May 26
'11 at 2:01 @Nakilon - the same way you can tell with dwarves --
a brown downwards arrow that intermittently flashes. –  Raven
Dreamer May 26 '11 at 3:44 @Nakilon you can also check the
health screen (using z to go to the status screen, and then
selecting the health tab). Animals that are hungry wil show up
here, and this will also show if they a