Officially the first post I really laughed on lemmy! The future seems bright! 🤣
The left one. It’s the Giraffe’s neck that’s long. Not their torso.
Edit: See Derpleton from Centaurworld.
Counterargument: a centaur is a human torso on a horse’s neck, so it’s the right one
But the human portion has normal human proportions (though potentially scaled up a little). Why would being on a giraffe’s body change that?
Because the one on the right is funnier
Exactly, the left one warps the human proportions while the right one extends the giraffe neck that connects with the human torso. The right one is more natural.
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A giraffe is a horse with a long neck.
A giraffe centaur is a centaur with a long neck.
QED
What if horses are instead giraffes with short necks? Checkmate atheists
A centaur is a horse with human torso after the neck, so a giraffe centaur is a horse with a long neck and a human torso after the neck. Right is justice.
Also huge tongue
uwu
How does he pick his nose or brush his teeth?
Giraffes have extremely long tongues
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that neck
What in the fresh hell is this? 💀
Centaur World is a story about a war horse that accidentally falls into Centaur World full of happy cartoon centaurs that happen to speak horse or whatever.
They speak English. Horse is magicked with the ability to speak by going to CW
That’s Derpleton from Centaurworld. Is a weird, but good show. Would recommend.
I felt ridiculous watching it but it was so good. It’s the sort of show I plan to pull out to be the fun aunt alongside Avatar. I didn’t expect for it to make me cry but it did
Centaur World is incredible. Best kids show I’ve seen as an adult. They need your viewership to make more crazy stuff.
Came here to post this
Too many pixels I can’t understand what I’m looking at
Have some Lenny gold
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Centaurs don’t have horse necks so neither is right. It would be the body of a giraffe with a human torso starting where the neck would start
But is the human torso going to be hella long like the example on the right? That’s not a neck. That’s a long abdomen.
Nah, just like a normal centaur but with long spindly giraffe legs
Neither. The neck is the long part, and do horse-based centaurs have horse necks?
Giraffe centaurs would be underwhelming.
Fuck, this really opened my eyes. You ruined giraffe centaurs for me. D:
But in a centaur, the human torso is placed where the horse neck would be. If it was the torso that was replaced they would look more like satyrs.
But in a centaur, the human torso is placed where the horse neck would be.
Yes, with a perfectly normal human torso. Put a human torso in the same spot and…
BOOOORRRING!! 🤣
A Giraffe’s shoulder height is like 8 to 13ft, no way ms.curly is only 5’11
You’re not wrong, but I was very much regretting my decision to search for giraffe centaurs at all, and Ms. Curly was a safe enough option with the proportions I was trying to communicate.
lol
The torso is a tricky concept, there’s no good anatomical definition that makes sense. Is the pelvis included? The whole axial skeleton? Everyone knows the general idea of where the torso is, but it’s hard to define with precision.
bro how did I get sensory overload from a black and white image
Bloody One Piece.
That’s why I read this shit with fan colorings. I think my brain would literally not be able to process what’s going on without it
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Neither, a centaur has a human torso starting at the base of the neck, the left one has a long neck so clearly not a human torso. The left one has a long torso, so that doesn’t fit either.
Solution: it’d be exactly like a regular centaur but with a different skin pattern
Much taller legs
We’d have to start evolution again because all mammals have four limbs, and four only. That’s why we can’t have pegasus (pegasi?) either. Bummer, I know.
Isn’t a pegasus a bird? Would that mean that they lay eggs?
You may be on to something
Pegasus is what happens when Zeus and Loki fuck.
Biology definitions are not based in causation, it wouldn’t lay eggs just cuz we call it a bird. It might be like the anti-platypus tho, the only bird to give birth to live young
What if he wore pants?
the left one would look sick with some shades
Why not scale up the size of the human so it fits with both solutions?
It’s funnier this way?
I think a huge human torso on top of a giraffe could also look funny enough
I say the left but double the length of the arms.
Hands would be a lot less evolutionarily useful if they couldn’t reach your mouth.
They still could, you would just need to bend your head down to reach em
I bet they still couldn’t reach. Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae in their necks as other mammals. This makes their necks very stiff, compared to their lengths. For reference, look up giraffes drinking.
Giraffes are Artiodactyla like cattle so they would be closer in minotaur style than the Perissodactyla centaur style. Two hoofed legs, human upper body, long neck and giraffe head.
Speaking of Perissodactyla, this guy essentially is a fantasy creature. He’s the centaur she told you not to worry about.
Left is more natural. Evolution wouldn’t waste time lifting that much mass making the creature top heavy unless it had an absurdly good reason to.
Mmm. Yeah. Evolution. Human giraffe hybrid. Let’s see the branches of this tree.
The reason is right here; us experiencing it.
