Now, at first I thought it was my imagination, or that I was in some sort of sick and twisted twilight zone... But I found five rabbits in two area-squares, two bears within three areas, several foxes and a boar. Two chicken herds also spawned, and I'm seeing quite a bit more string-based entities.
I've got four leathers out of per-tanning-tub, and haven't had to mass-fill it yet (ie, i'm only throwing one bucket of water in each new-hide time), and I've just relit my fire after I had already used it for cooking once, an hour ago.
Anybody else noticed any possible tweaks?

Grand Walker of World 1 (w1).
Ex-Lawspeaker of New London, Deadwood and New Deadwood (w3).
Witness of the World 4 Great Explosion (w4).
Ex-Lawspeaker of Gregminster (w5).
Ex-Lawspeaker of Laketown (w6).
Squatter and Rebuilder of Templus Pacis (w6).
Hermit thereafter.
Lawspeaker of Tachbrookshire (Hafen 2)