• cmhe@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months 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! 😉

    • MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • GreenShimada@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months 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.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months ago

    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?