Hello! I was checking today which animals can swim in the game and I found something strange with the ostrich. Its traversable area shows that they can get even in the deep water, but when they do so, they keep walking the same way as they do on the ground, but their feet don't touch the ground underwater. However all other animals have swimming animations, even the cassowary, and they move their legs in a different way. I saw that the giraffe and the kangaroo can only enter the shallow water, so I thought the ostrich would be the same, but no. Is this a bug or can ostriches swim?
Can ostriches swim?
- Thread starter Aramar
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Thanks for your answer. I find it strange that they can swim but don't have a swimming animation like all other animals. It looks so weird seeing the ostrich walk like that inside the water without touching the ground.
I've never witnessed it myself in-game so I couldn't say whether it's a one-off occurrence in your game or whether it is just missing swimming animations. Maybe observe it for a while and see if it keeps happening and make a bug report for it?
That said, hopefully they'll just remove the swimming entirely instead of creating or correcting the animations for it. I already hate the way the antelope seem to run directly for the water in-game even though their natural instincts would turn them away from it. It's a case of "they can swim, yes, but they typically wouldn't unless it was incredibly necessary" (same for the ostriches, and lions - in real life whether a lion swims or not tends to depend entirely on the cat's personality). I don't know enough about cassowaries to say either way whether swimming is a common behaviour in them, but I wouldn't be inclined to think it was considering they have no natural protections against the perils of water.