Chicken genocide

[Nemu]

Since the server switch I'm seeing entire flocks of chickens dead and one fox nearby, everywhere.

I realize that foxes are meant to occasionally attack chickens but it seems wrong for them to exterminate everything in sight and not eat anything, in rl they would only kill if they were hungry and leave the rest for another time and they wouldn't leave the kill for someone or something else to come up and snatch it.

[Potjeh]

Actually, they would kill all the chickens. Ask anyone who's had a coop, if a fox gets inside all the chickens are dead. It's because predators enter a killing frenzy when they're presented with a lot of prey that can't escape.

[Nemu]

oh poor chickens :<

but in the wild, things hunt when hungry and when they get a kill they wouldn't leave it to keep chasing down all of them...i would think

[Delamore]

oh poor chickens :<

but in the wild, things hunt when hungry and when they get a kill they wouldn't leave it to keep chasing down all of them...i would think

"With no basis for my claims I know that in the wild it wouldn't be like this"

[Nemu]

it was a general observation of how animals hunt..

go sniff your capes

[Onionfighter]

go sniff your capes

[niltrias]

"With no basis for my claims I know that in the wild it wouldn't be like this"

Yep, delamore wins this round. I dont know of any scientific studies, but the weight of anecdotal evidence shows that both foxes and weasels tend to kill prey in excess of what they can eat. You could probably wiki it, but I am feeling too lazy.

[TheDrill]

a wild chicken appeared

[Zizi]

Chickens are naturally vulnerable as they can't fly and rarely manage to survive even a couple of generations in the feral state. They began as flightless jungle birds and have been adapted for a coop so it is a miracle that they are found in H & H at all. Pigeons would have been a lot more realistic for both hunting and domestication, and while modern city dwellers might have recoiled at the thought of eating the flying rats, we are eating ants now, right? So pigeons wouldn't have been so bad. I suspect the difficulty with a flying graphic and algorythm led the devs to start with a flightless bird.

I scavenge a lot of dead chickens because I hate to see them go to waste, but I would get a lot more lp if I actually caught the live ones.

[sabinati]

not really... chickens and rabbits give ridiculously low LP when you kill them.