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MOGG - GL (Dairy) - Pinnipeds

This modifies all pinnipeds (seals and walruses) and their giant variations in DF to the MOGG format.

All the usual changes; 4 unique preferences for each creature, accurate names and adjectives.

It also adds a x2 metrial value multiplier for elephant seals, walruses and their giant counterparts as they are in the top 10 largest ocean creatures and quite rare to find. Due to the value multipliers I have given these creature types unique dairy names rather than the generic ones so they stand out as being more special.

The rest of the seals' dairy products will now be listed as pinniped's milk/cheese, and described with the adjective "briny"; e.g. pinniped's cheese, boiling briny milky (cloud?). As seals are definitely not know for their dairy production, they receive the default 5x penalty, compared to domesticated dairy animals.

One final addition, is that as of v1.01, leopard seals can now be trained for hunting and you can train war walruses (warlruses?). Both of these make sense to me; seals are very trainable in general. Leopard seals are large and very efficient predators and walruses are massive and have huge tusks, akin to the elephant. No idea how practical this is in-game, their gaits might be pretty funny for either of these jobs just for starters, but we will see I suppose. If nothing else, it ought at least give the next goblin attackers a bit of a surprise. Oh, and don't worry, of course their giant variants are also trainable.

Due to only appearing in the Arctic Ocean biome, seals will never naturally appear on embark, though I assume they can arrive on caravans, but even this might not be possible for the same biome reasons. I am considering whether to force them to appear for dwarven civilisations, but am not sure about this as it seems a bit immersion breaking to have dwarves embarking to tropical rainforests with elephant seals. I will give it some thought or await feedback.

Esoterica:

-The collective adjective for seals is "phocine".
-Dwarf Fortress accurately represents the huge sexual dimorphism of elephant seals, with the bulls being well over twice the size of the cows.