Question two on centaur anatomy

[conuly]

Because once you start thinking this way you really can't stop:

Where do centaur babies get their milk from? One would assume the human breasts (human breasts, human faces, makes sense) but then... do they not have horse nipples as well?

Also, interesting fact: Male horses don't have nipples in the way male humans do. Would this carry over to the human part of the centaur as well?

Comments

[steorra]

I think in the Narnia Chronicles, centaurs eat double - they eat a horse's meal for the horse stomach and a human meal for the human stomach. A result is that they spend a lot of time eating, and feeding one is quite a production. In such a system, I'd expect that they have both human and horse nipples and feed from both of them.

I expect that on a male, the human part would have nipples in the human way, while the horse part would not have nipples in the horse way.

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Now I am wondering about centaurs with different sexes for the horse and human part.

[conuly]

A result is that they spend a lot of time eating, and feeding one is quite a production.

I can imagine. Grass and hay are not such an efficient source of calories, especially when your teeth aren't designed for it.