• NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      I… what the fuck am I looking at… ?

      Please draw a diagram of this creature’s digestive system for me. Also their spinal structure.

    • Mesophar@pawb.socialEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      Good ol’ Hamlet! Anytime one of these “what if centaur but different” posts come up I think about him

        • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
          1·
          9 days ago

          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
            1·
            9 days ago

            How long has it been since you’ve visited Denmark?

            Since I’m a Danish citizen and have lived here my whole life, I guess I’ve technically never VISITED Denmark 😄

            Because that geraffe is the spitting image of this Danish exchange student I dated in high school

            That’s probably Pernille. She works at my local hardware store.

  • cmhe@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 days ago

    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! 😉

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    9 days ago

    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?

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        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.

          • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            9 days ago

            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.

  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 days ago

    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.

    My little cope against this is:

    1. 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.

    2. 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.pubEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      Cows are short giraffes, though… (And both cows and giraffes are just forms of land whale)

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 days ago

        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