Ps everyone should go watch centaurworld. It’s a masterpiece.
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! 😉
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.
Why would the giraffe have a 6 foot torso?
Why don’t you have six foot torso
Well obviously I do but I’m not a giraffe.
yeah i know. your a dog, this is the internet.
My wife and I frequently bond over a mutual hatred of giraffes. I think this meme just got me laid tonight
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.
You have to have the long neck, or it’s not a giraffe man thing
Edit: A giraftaur
What if it’s some other type of stupid long horse
Stupid? No good sir. *cue music My Horse is amazing…
Both, and they’ve been at war with each other for millenia.
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:
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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.
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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.
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The second one. The magic that created them would fortify their muscles.
Right one seems more correct, but the human part shouldn’t have stripes.
GD it.
This is the “Tie Game” all over again.
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?
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.
1st one definitely
