One of the few "kids" shows who treated their audience with upmost respect, never talked down to the audience, and knew that kids are able to see and understand heavy topics. the suicide episode still haunts me on how incredibly good it was.
Yes, I will die on the hill that a show about farting animals is genuinely a must watch for everyone.
I was stoned out of my gourd one day after work, and the friend that talked up Steven Universe (warning me not to binge - I did and it shattered me.) said to watch centaurworld. I gave it a chance and have no regrets.
Gritty, heavy, but loving and communicative. Beautiful show.
So I am an expert in alternative digestive systems. It loops down into the human then back up into the geraffe. That's so the human segment can be vomited at a predator as a defense mechanism m
Centraur is when the neck of an quadruped animal gets its neck replaced by an human upper body... So the giraffe centaur would have neither a long human stomach, nor a long human neck.
It is reductionism to say that something isn't a giraffe, if it doesn't have a long neck part. Shame on you! 😉
Yeah. Everyone knows giraffe centaurs share the ears and ossicones of giraffes, but not their long necks and legs.
It's more like the ancestors of giraffes that had not elongated yet. Oh, and pretty long tongues too.
Here the thing. You ever looked into a giraffe's eyes? There's nothing there, they're mentally vacant. They make deer look like they read the New Yorker. They fight with their necks, which is dumb, but it's even dumber that their evolutionary gambit worked at all. You wanted to eat the leaves, you got tall. Your medals are in the mail, giraffes. Gold medals with sarcastically long neck ribbons. It makes me sick. They're no better than camels, and don't get me started about those filthy bastards.
Come on, have you seen them? I could name three thing to do with their mouths alone that serve as proof that God doesn't exist. Go watch a video of camel mouth bubbles and tell me I'm wrong, and keep in mind this is a creature that will spit on you.
It's posts like this that just reinforce the idea that centaurs are freaky creatures.
Why a six-limbed creature? Actual mammals have at most 4 limbs. What does it eat? Is the stomach a horse stomach or a human stomach? Does the human head have to eat 15 kilograms of grass per day, munching it inefficiently with its human teeth? Can it just blend it up and drink vast quantities of smoothies instead? Are the centaur's front limbs massively strong, unlike a horse, because it has to support a whole secondary torso right at the front of its body? Does the whole body have the same notoriously finnicky immune system and fragility of a horse? Where's the heart, is it in the human chest or the horse chest? If it is running hard will it be the human chest that's panting, using those tiny lungs to power an entire body? Or is there just an air tube down through the useless human chest all the way to the horse's mighty lungs? If the lungs being used are the horse ones, what's all that room in the human chest being used for?
The centaur diet consists mostly of meat, so they require fewer plants to survive. But plants are very good for their health, preferably root and leafy plants over grains, nuts, and fruits, but they can still enjoy any diet.
Centaurs used to prefer to eat only raw meat and alcohol, but after contact with humans they developed a cooking culture, preferring methods like spit roasts over methods like boiling, but they still enjoy a good stew.
Foods that are toxic or harmful to horses but not to humans are not a problem for centaurs, such as garlic, onions, avocado, chocolate, bread, dairy, and the brassica cultivars.
The upper torsos of centaurs have secondary lungs and a second small heart that help support their brain and make it less likely that they'll faint during heavy activity, with an esophagus leading to the stomach and a thick trachea leading to larger lungs, both on the second torso.
Their esophagus moves food faster than a human esophagus does, so eating something sharp that could scratch their esophagus is more harmful to them, so it's more important for them to really chew their food well. Unlike horses, centaurs can vomit.
Their upper torso has none of the other vital organs humans have in that area, leaving more room for muscles, which gives them their massive upper body strength. When a centaur appears to have a belly, there's no interintestinal fat there; it's all abdominal fat.
The lower torso has all other main vital organs, and a larger heart and lungs similar to those of horses, and the thicker trachea allows them to breathe faster. Centaurs often have large nostrils and a slightly elongated face to allow for faster airflow.
Their livers are more similar in function to those of humans and sledge dogs, giving them high endurance. They can run without rest far longer than any other creatures they know.
Their lymphatic and blood system, on the other hand, is more similar to that of horses.
Unlike humans, centaurs do not lose muscle mass due to lack of activity, mostly due to illness or lack of nutrition.
There are some variations depending on what 'taur' is their lower body, but these are the common traits shared among all tauric species.
I think it would look like a dude with two torsos stacked on top of each other. My logic is a centaur replaced the neck and head of a horse with the torso of a man. So if you replace the neck and head of a man with the torso of a man... Mantaur
Imagine a guy crawling along on the ground, except where his neck would be there's a second torso attached, and it goes upwards so that as the guy crawls the second torso is vertical.
This is actually so tricky. My instinct said "right hand side would be impractical, so no way" but then I remembered they evolved long necks to get to food so it makes sense to evolve arms there to better feed themselves.
::: spoiler My little cope against this is:
Centaurs use their arms to wield and craft weapons. This would make them much better suited for the left hand option, where they can try for body strikes against centaurs rather than just decapitation. It would also make them actually useful against any foes which aren't birds.
From an evolutionary and physiological standpoint, arms growing out of your neck is unrealistic. You don't have the structural components to support it there - the neck is too busy supporting the head and it's pretty crowded up there. Arms are typically attached to a broadened torso-skeleton, built to support lateral attachments as well as the longitudinal attachment of a head and neck.
:::
Edit: Ah, but it seems I haven't paid enough attention to the illustration. Centaur on the right actually has a mega torso as it's neck, which renders cope #2 as obsolete.
Well, I find it hard to believe that the centiraffe would be forced to waste resources on growing a mega ribcage and mega long sternum like that. Also, it's kind of just not "in the spirit of the game" - no longer does he resemble a giraffe, whose defining feature is the mega neck, but now he resembles just a very tall centaur. Horses are not short giraffes.
...and whales are closely related, even if one step further separated – they only have three stomaches instead of four, for example. But ungulates all the same!
In a normal giraffe the neck (and the legs) is long in order to be able to reach the leafs high up on trees, so it makes sense that in a giraffe centaur arms would be at a that would let them use theirs arms to help with that, which would either be higher up or, alternativelly, lower down but long enough that they can both reach the leaves above AND the ground below whilst standing up.
Normal centaurs have a 90 degree bend in their spine making them incredibly fragile, 2 hearts, two ribcages, and two sets of lungs, both of which would be unable to supply a normal centaur with air under physical effort because of the long airway required to reach the larger lungs.
Mythical creatures are held together with magic so its obvious the second one is correct.
144 Comments
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social · 99 pts · 127d
:3
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 126d
Only correct answer.
Centaurworld is probably one of the best Netflix shows
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 126d
Hush now, hide, all you little ones Rush now, into the middle of nowhere Singing and laughter will die.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 126d
One of the few "kids" shows who treated their audience with upmost respect, never talked down to the audience, and knew that kids are able to see and understand heavy topics. the suicide episode still haunts me on how incredibly good it was.
Yes, I will die on the hill that a show about farting animals is genuinely a must watch for everyone.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 126d
I was stoned out of my gourd one day after work, and the friend that talked up Steven Universe (warning me not to binge - I did and it shattered me.) said to watch centaurworld. I gave it a chance and have no regrets.
Gritty, heavy, but loving and communicative. Beautiful show.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
it holds up sober too.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
Oh it definitely does, that was just why I started it.
Finished it out stone cold sober and it was really fantastic.
gothic_lemons@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
It's so good!
Balinares@pawb.social · 2 pts · 126d
I'm mildly offended that I can consistently be reduced to a blubbering mess by a show with literal fart-based plot points.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
as far as shows with literal fart based plots. this one's the best
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
Netflix sort of went to shit so I've been off it for a while.
Is this an outlier or do they actual serve anything decent these days?
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
definitely an outlayer. give it a watch.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
Imma sail the high seas on this one.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
however you watch it, enjoy it.
::: spoiler not really a spoiler but make sure you are in a good place and close to good company for s01e08. :::
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
Shit, maybe not. I'm in the US and I'm pretty fucking fragile right now, emotionally. XD
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
mate. feel free to DM me if you need to after that episode
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 127d
Centaurworld nailed it. Next question
SpicyLizards@reddthat.com · 72 pts · 127d
Thinking this
Attribution https://www.instagram.com/p/DTY5qn3D9N3/
xkbx@startrek.website · 26 pts · 126d
I do believe that would be more like a minotaur than a centaur
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 126d
Minoraffe? Giraffitaur?
Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 126d
Das "-taur" kommt natürlich von "Taurus" also Stier. Also eindeutig "Minoraffe", klingt auch passend, finde Ich. Nur ein wenig nach Affe.
Rooster326@programming.dev · 3 pts · 126d
Talk about back pain.
xia@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 126d
Good posture is VERY important in this case.
Bazell@lemmy.zip · 56 pts · 127d
There's a 3d option available:
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 25 pts · 127d
I... what the fuck am I looking at... ?
Please draw a diagram of this creature's digestive system for me. Also their spinal structure.
Lehmuusa@nord.pub · 14 pts · 127d
It's the human centipede. But giraffe.
Bazell@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 127d
Sorry, but I have no clue how this character functions at all. Ask Oda (One Piece creator) about this. 😁
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
This a giraffe with an elaborate head ornament.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
So I am an expert in alternative digestive systems. It loops down into the human then back up into the geraffe. That's so the human segment can be vomited at a predator as a defense mechanism m
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 125d
Yeah... the Smiles are pretty fucked up.
Mesophar@pawb.social · 6 pts · 126d
Good ol' Hamlet! Anytime one of these "what if centaur but different" posts come up I think about him
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 126d
..that play is apparently VERY different from how I remember it 🤔
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
How long has it been since you've visited Denmark? Because that geraffe is the spitting image of this Danish exchange student I dated in high school
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 126d
Since I'm a Danish citizen and have lived here my whole life, I guess I've technically never VISITED Denmark 😄
That's probably Pernille. She works at my local hardware store.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 125d
she's a classy lady
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 126d
Looks 2d to me.
AMoralNihilist@feddit.uk · 37 pts · 127d
Ps everyone should go watch centaurworld. It's a masterpiece.
salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 32 pts · 126d
AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 126d
nosk from hollow knight
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 30 pts · 127d
I don't like it. But it's probably #2. Centaurs replace the neck of the base animal with a human torso.
nodiratime@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 127d
Considering the path of the Giraffes Recurrent laryngeal nerve, I would say so too.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 127d
But then the torso wouldn't be so long.
Cellari@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 126d
You have to have the long neck, or it's not a giraffe man thing
Edit: A giraftaur
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 126d
centaffe
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 126d
Centauraffe
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
What if it's some other type of stupid long horse
Cellari@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 125d
Stupid? No good sir. *cue music My Horse is amazing...
volore@scribe.disroot.org · 22 pts · 126d
Do giraffes have long necks, or long torsos?
Yeah, the first one obviously.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 126d
His logic is sound.
cmhe@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 126d
False dichotomy.
Centraur is when the neck of an quadruped animal gets its neck replaced by an human upper body... So the giraffe centaur would have neither a long human stomach, nor a long human neck.
It is reductionism to say that something isn't a giraffe, if it doesn't have a long neck part. Shame on you! 😉
MithranArkanere@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 125d
Yeah. Everyone knows giraffe centaurs share the ears and ossicones of giraffes, but not their long necks and legs.
It's more like the ancestors of giraffes that had not elongated yet. Oh, and pretty long tongues too.
Lehmuusa@nord.pub · 18 pts · 127d
A centaur has explicitly horse features until a certain point, then explicitly human features from that point onwards.
That would mean the upper part not being allowed to divert back to horseness/giraffiness, as the left pic does.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev · 9 pts · 126d
But right would also be wrong, because the torso is elongated instead of the neck.
I suppose a giraffe centaur would be considerably shorter than either of these images suggest.
reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 126d
So, the left pic without the long neck? Makes the most sense to me.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
So, the horses at Fenton's (where the horses are hung like you) are centaurs by that definition?
Rooster326@programming.dev · 17 pts · 126d
Number 2 would fall over.
Right now a giraffe needs 600lbs of neck muscle to hold up a 50 lb head on a 6 foot lever.
There is no way the giraffe's neck could hold a regular human torso. Forget a proportional one. It's not possible.
Picture for scale. A regular human torso would look comically small on top of a giraffe.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 126d
Came here for this. #2 would bend over once and be down for life.
Not to mention those front knees would be under tremendous pressure, even just normal walking would be punishing.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 126d
Well, maybe. Or they'd have the most developed 42 pack abs you've ever seen.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
What about very developed neck flap sails
merc@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 126d
You don't even have to get into the weight.
Mammals have at most 4 limbs. Centaurs would have 6 limbs, and the mammal brain never evolved to handle that many.
Rooster326@programming.dev · 1 pts · 125d
Yes but there's a chance
bort@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 126d
centaur have human shoulders and neck and head. And horse body without neck&head
so the first one is right, except with human neck
Rooster326@programming.dev · 6 pts · 126d
Are you implying standard centaurs don't have horse necks?
mrmisses@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 126d
Yeah, have you not seen a standard centaur before? Sheesh
yakko@feddit.uk · 12 pts · 126d
My wife and I frequently bond over a mutual hatred of giraffes. I think this meme just got me laid tonight
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 126d
I'm glad you two monsters found each other. I hope your kids grow up to love giraffes.
yakko@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 126d
The family that hates together ungulates together!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
All ungulates? What about the tasty ones?
yakko@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 126d
Well no, just mainly giraffes. I was hoping that the rhyme would have been funny and distracting enough that I didn't have to explain.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 125d
do you pronounce penelope like antelope?
yakko@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 125d
I don't think I've ever said the name Penelope out loud in my life, come to think of it. I guess we'll never know
cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 126d
So why do you two hate giraffes?
yakko@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 126d
Here the thing. You ever looked into a giraffe's eyes? There's nothing there, they're mentally vacant. They make deer look like they read the New Yorker. They fight with their necks, which is dumb, but it's even dumber that their evolutionary gambit worked at all. You wanted to eat the leaves, you got tall. Your medals are in the mail, giraffes. Gold medals with sarcastically long neck ribbons. It makes me sick. They're no better than camels, and don't get me started about those filthy bastards.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 126d
Well no, now we're interested and you need to elaborate on the camels.
yakko@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 126d
Come on, have you seen them? I could name three thing to do with their mouths alone that serve as proof that God doesn't exist. Go watch a video of camel mouth bubbles and tell me I'm wrong, and keep in mind this is a creature that will spit on you.
bss03@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 126d
Stupid long horses. /ref
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 127d
Giraffes have the same number of neck vertebrae as you and me, the bones are just much longer.
An actual giraffe centaur with human torso from the animal's chest up would just be a long-legged spotty horse centaur.
merc@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 126d
It's posts like this that just reinforce the idea that centaurs are freaky creatures.
Why a six-limbed creature? Actual mammals have at most 4 limbs. What does it eat? Is the stomach a horse stomach or a human stomach? Does the human head have to eat 15 kilograms of grass per day, munching it inefficiently with its human teeth? Can it just blend it up and drink vast quantities of smoothies instead? Are the centaur's front limbs massively strong, unlike a horse, because it has to support a whole secondary torso right at the front of its body? Does the whole body have the same notoriously finnicky immune system and fragility of a horse? Where's the heart, is it in the human chest or the horse chest? If it is running hard will it be the human chest that's panting, using those tiny lungs to power an entire body? Or is there just an air tube down through the useless human chest all the way to the horse's mighty lungs? If the lungs being used are the horse ones, what's all that room in the human chest being used for?
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 126d
6 limbs implies that centaurs are insects.
merc@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 125d
The human-looking part is probably just a lure, like those deep-sea lantern fish. A human gets close enough to investigate and the insect pounces.
wabasso@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 126d
This post changed me.
MithranArkanere@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 125d
The centaur diet consists mostly of meat, so they require fewer plants to survive. But plants are very good for their health, preferably root and leafy plants over grains, nuts, and fruits, but they can still enjoy any diet.
Centaurs used to prefer to eat only raw meat and alcohol, but after contact with humans they developed a cooking culture, preferring methods like spit roasts over methods like boiling, but they still enjoy a good stew.
Foods that are toxic or harmful to horses but not to humans are not a problem for centaurs, such as garlic, onions, avocado, chocolate, bread, dairy, and the brassica cultivars.
The upper torsos of centaurs have secondary lungs and a second small heart that help support their brain and make it less likely that they'll faint during heavy activity, with an esophagus leading to the stomach and a thick trachea leading to larger lungs, both on the second torso.
Their esophagus moves food faster than a human esophagus does, so eating something sharp that could scratch their esophagus is more harmful to them, so it's more important for them to really chew their food well. Unlike horses, centaurs can vomit. Their upper torso has none of the other vital organs humans have in that area, leaving more room for muscles, which gives them their massive upper body strength. When a centaur appears to have a belly, there's no interintestinal fat there; it's all abdominal fat.
The lower torso has all other main vital organs, and a larger heart and lungs similar to those of horses, and the thicker trachea allows them to breathe faster. Centaurs often have large nostrils and a slightly elongated face to allow for faster airflow.
Their livers are more similar in function to those of humans and sledge dogs, giving them high endurance. They can run without rest far longer than any other creatures they know.
Their lymphatic and blood system, on the other hand, is more similar to that of horses.
Unlike humans, centaurs do not lose muscle mass due to lack of activity, mostly due to illness or lack of nutrition.
There are some variations depending on what 'taur' is their lower body, but these are the common traits shared among all tauric species.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 126d
Why would the giraffe have a 6 foot torso?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 126d
Yeah, what's going on inside there?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
Why don't you have six foot torso
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 126d
Well obviously I do but I'm not a giraffe.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 125d
yeah i know. your a dog, this is the internet.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 126d
No.
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 126d
Neck has to be long. if torso is long that's biologically impossible you die of low blood pressure to the head
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 126d
tomkatt@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 126d
0x0@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 126d
Asking the real questions.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 126d
related, what would a human-human centaur look like?
rethnor@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 126d
Didn't they have those in dungeon crawler Carl?
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 126d
that was what inspired the question
so my thoughts are tainted. I want fresh opinions
tamal3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 126d
Wasn't it called the mantaur?
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 126d
that it was
rethnor@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 118d
I think it would look like a dude with two torsos stacked on top of each other. My logic is a centaur replaced the neck and head of a horse with the torso of a man. So if you replace the neck and head of a man with the torso of a man... Mantaur
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 117d
so still only one pair of legs, then
merc@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 126d
Imagine a guy crawling along on the ground, except where his neck would be there's a second torso attached, and it goes upwards so that as the guy crawls the second torso is vertical.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 126d
lord garmadon from lego ninjago ig
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 126d
A dude with another dude growing out of his butt.
melfie@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 126d
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 6 pts · 126d
the first, obviously
heartpunk25@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 126d
of course
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 126d
The first one. The second one is way too top heavy to be practical.
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 126d
And what if they wear pants?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 126d
No Pants is one of the advantages of being a giraffe. It's one of the first rules.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 127d
This is actually so tricky. My instinct said "right hand side would be impractical, so no way" but then I remembered they evolved long necks to get to food so it makes sense to evolve arms there to better feed themselves.
::: spoiler My little cope against this is:
Centaurs use their arms to wield and craft weapons. This would make them much better suited for the left hand option, where they can try for body strikes against centaurs rather than just decapitation. It would also make them actually useful against any foes which aren't birds.
From an evolutionary and physiological standpoint, arms growing out of your neck is unrealistic. You don't have the structural components to support it there - the neck is too busy supporting the head and it's pretty crowded up there. Arms are typically attached to a broadened torso-skeleton, built to support lateral attachments as well as the longitudinal attachment of a head and neck. :::
Edit: Ah, but it seems I haven't paid enough attention to the illustration. Centaur on the right actually has a mega torso as it's neck, which renders cope #2 as obsolete.
Well, I find it hard to believe that the centiraffe would be forced to waste resources on growing a mega ribcage and mega long sternum like that. Also, it's kind of just not "in the spirit of the game" - no longer does he resemble a giraffe, whose defining feature is the mega neck, but now he resembles just a very tall centaur. Horses are not short giraffes.
Still going with option A.
Lehmuusa@nord.pub · 3 pts · 127d
Cows are short giraffes, though... (And both cows and giraffes are just forms of land whale)
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
u blew my mind, i honestly never knew this but had to google it. Giraffes, Cows and Deers are indeed "cousins"
Lehmuusa@nord.pub · 1 pts · 126d
...and whales are closely related, even if one step further separated – they only have three stomaches instead of four, for example. But ungulates all the same!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
I'm going with option b because what if they had skin flaps on their arms and accidentally caught a gust of wind like a kite
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 126d
Unfortunately, we would probably get stuck with the first one, which wouldn't be much of an evolutionary improvement.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 126d
The second one. The magic that created them would fortify their muscles.
xia@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 126d
The weight distribution of second one looks... unstable... probably too top-heavy to be effective.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
Usefulness is overrated
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
Magic.
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 127d
Yes
Jerkface@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 126d
Both, and they've been at war with each other for millenia.
slowmorella@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 126d
first option because the equivalent of giraffe neck would be human neck.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
I have no idea, but if i had to pick one based on looks i would pick the right. It just looks more umm reasonable?
Rooster326@programming.dev · 2 pts · 126d
Soulstorm@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 125d
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 127d
Hmm... is the giraffe centaur an obligate herbivore?
truthfultemporarily@feddit.org · 2 pts · 127d
The nerve that connects the larynx to the brain in all animals goes down through the neck, around the aorta, up through the neck again.
In giraffes, it is the longest nerve in the animal kingdom. The signal delay is so long that giraffes are unable to make any complex sounds.
Source: inside natures giants documentary series, recommended.
zalecqa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
1st one definitely
WiseScorpio@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
GD it.
This is the "Tie Game" all over again.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 126d
In a normal giraffe the neck (and the legs) is long in order to be able to reach the leafs high up on trees, so it makes sense that in a giraffe centaur arms would be at a that would let them use theirs arms to help with that, which would either be higher up or, alternativelly, lower down but long enough that they can both reach the leaves above AND the ground below whilst standing up.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
Neither, but closer to the right one. Think like a flying squirrel. Lots of loose skin to catch breezes
raven@lemmy.org · 1 pts · 126d
First one!
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 126d
It's a normal sized human torso.
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
Right one seems more correct, but the human part shouldn't have stripes.
IceFoxX@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 126d
cuerdo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 126d
why on earth would it have a human heart.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
It would have 2 hearts
IceFoxX@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
cuerdo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 125d
But the Centaur has two torsos, it is also human in appearance, his internal organs have no need to be human-like
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
I bet you felt intelligent making this post didn't you?
IceFoxX@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
Normal centaurs have a 90 degree bend in their spine making them incredibly fragile, 2 hearts, two ribcages, and two sets of lungs, both of which would be unable to supply a normal centaur with air under physical effort because of the long airway required to reach the larger lungs.
Mythical creatures are held together with magic so its obvious the second one is correct.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 126d
Whatever the writers decide it looks like in the universe they write about.
byte_0verflow@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 126d
melfie@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 126d
I thought it was a stereogram, but alas nothing popped out at me.
Edit:
Maybe more like this with stubby legs and a long neck?
byte_0verflow@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 126d
Sorry, it was just corrupted, I will try to reload it, sorry again
BlindFrog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
All I see is a bunch of fuzz. Try reuploading?