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[Chipperbane]

The elves were exquisitely kind to me this embark. They've brought me nothing but breeding pairs of Tigers, Leopards, and Elephants(which I modded to ensure they don't kill themselves via starvation(Grazer:461, yo, Reindeer style).

However, the leopards have been around for the better part of two to three years and haven't produced a litter of cubs yet. Is this because I trained them as Hunting Leopards? The hunting dogs seem to have no trouble having puppies, why should the leopard be any different?

[Arcvasti]

Wild animals just have longer gestation times if I remember correctly. Or maybe leopards don't have a [CHILD] tag and you'll need to mod that in.

[Chipperbane]

Well, the raw says this: [CHILD:3][GENERAL_CHILD_NAME:leopard cub:leopard cubs].

And I've kept them locked up inside so they don't risk getting killed, they've had nothing but time.

[Quietust]

All animals have a gestation period of 6 months (Dwarves are 9 months), but there are several factors that can prevent them from breeding:

1. Too many adults - if you have more than 50 per species, they will stop breeding.
2. Too many children - if more than 75% of that animal's population is juvenile, they will stop breeding until the young ones grow up.
3. They're gay - the animals in your "breeding pairs" are homosexual or otherwise uninterested in reproducing, which is the case for 25% of all animals.

[Chipperbane]

Well, it can't be 1. I have approximately two leopards and three tigers.

It can't be 2, because I have approximately zero kittens.

As to 3, I'm simultaneously proud and irritated. Irritated that I have a breeding pair and they're not breeding. Proud because I'm gay and I think it's adorable.

Here's hoping the Elves bring something fun.

[Arcvasti]

3. They're gay - the animals in your "breeding pairs" are homosexual or otherwise uninterested in reproducing, which is the case for 25% of all animals.

That seems like it'll make it a pain to breed rare animals in the latest version. I can just imagine capturing two dragons at great expense and then discovering one of them is asexual/whatever. Although that WILL limit catsplosions. Instead of a single tomcat being an unstoppable kitten-making pimp, he might just be uninterested. "Well, I COULD go breed, but I would have to get up first and this pile of XXwool socksXX is super comfy...".

[Chipperbane]

I checked the raws and neither Leopards nor Tigers had an ORIENTATION creature token, which to me, implies that they can't be anything but heterosexual. Actually, nothing appears to have this tag...

However, it explains so much if they're gay - like why my breeding pair of pigs haven't given me any piglets, or the large cats and a lack of kittens...

Going through the raws I can't find anything about ORIENTATION. Now, I'm not the best at understanding the behind the scenes nature of Dwarf Fortress, but I'm lead to believe that Creature Tokens are found in Creature Raws.

EDIT:

The ORIENTATION tag is omitted by default, and in its absence the game uses the values [ORIENTATION:MALE:5:20:75] and [ORIENTATION:FEMALE:75:20:5] for the female caste, and the reverse for the male caste.

Found that gem on the Wiki under marriage. And this:

It is believed that this makes 71.2% of dwarves strictly heterosexual, 23.8% bisexual, 3.8% asexual, and 1.2% strictly homosexual.

[Bumber]

It looks like the Elves sold you queer giraffes leopards.

[Chipperbane]

It feels like I got sold a lemon.

[Orange Wizard]

The ORIENTATION tag is omitted by default, and in its absence the game uses the values [ORIENTATION:MALE:5:20:75] and [ORIENTATION:FEMALE:75:20:5] for the female caste, and the reverse for the male caste.

This means I'm going to have to go through all of the raws and add ORIENTATION tags to every creature so they'll breed properly. Sigh. Human rights are so obstructive.

[StagnantSoul]

Sigh. Human rights are so obstructive.

Sigged.

In other news, my male dwarf is holding the baby, while the mother just left it on the ground while she transferred to her burrow. This may be related. If all else fails, throw in some post secondary education, strobing lights, and beer. You'll have a lot of leopard cubs.

[Chipperbane]

Well, after two years, my tigers finally gave me a cub. Maybe the dude just had a narrow urethra.

Leopards are still obstinately sticking their noses up at me. I've offered them front row tickets to the stage adaptation of Aladdin, and they still refuse. Cheeky.

[Putnam]

The ORIENTATION tag is omitted by default, and in its absence the game uses the values [ORIENTATION:MALE:5:20:75] and [ORIENTATION:FEMALE:75:20:5] for the female caste, and the reverse for the male caste.

This means I'm going to have to go through all of the raws and add ORIENTATION tags to every creature so they'll breed properly. Sigh. Human rights are so obstructive.

Unless Quietust knows something I don't here (which, mind, is ridiculously likely), it seems to be only a 5% chance of not wanting to breed.

[Spectre Incarnate]

This means I'm going to have to go through all of the raws and add ORIENTATION tags to every creature so they'll breed properly. Sigh. Human rights are so obstructive.

As if humans invented sexual orientation... 
So sorry you have to "fix" your raws so they don't follow simulated real life patterns that don't directly benefit you.

[Putnam]

to be fair, people also edit their raws to make dwarves not need to eat or drink and other such things; in general, human rights offenses are par for the course wherever convenient for people playing this game