It's sort of disappointing how none of the legends of dangerous creatures are true.
Carp? I don't recall ever losing a dwarf to one.
Elephants? I've had peasants take them down single handed.
Unicorns? Easily than elephants.
People see things like Boatmurdered and all these awesome drawings of dwarves getting eaten by carp, and they find the myths so entertaining that they pretend that they're true.
We need to get Toady to unemasculate wildlife. There are like, 10 types of dangerous animal in the game.
you have clearly never seen the hippos....
I once had a fortress near a large river, with hippos on land. I got an immigrant ranger so I drafted him to shoot some carp. A carp BIT HIS ARM OFF and he was laying uncounsious in the gras (lucky guy if he wasn't eaten by hippos a few moment later....
The problem with hippos is that they breed like rabbits, I started with 1 page of hippos, and ended with 5, before unleashing the legendary militairy to scourge all hippos. Though it came to late for 30 other dwarfes.