I'm still thinking about centaurs!

[conuly]

Several people have mentioned that centaurs must eat a lot to support their huge horse body AND their not-too-tiny human body.

But not all horses are huge. What if centaurs aren't big? What if the horse half is, like, a miniature horse and the human half is scaled accordingly? What does that do to their diet? Shouldn't they eat less then? Why do we assume centaurs are big?

On another note: Winged humans. How do they work? Whichever sort of wings they are - bat wings, fairy wings, angel-type wings, bird wings of another sort - is there ANY way to make that happen? In Earth gravity? I assume they have a delicate bone structure, but how do the wings even attach?

Comments

[conuly]

Well, of course, grass is just not that great a source of energy. That's part of why horses have to eat so much.

Maybe if we completely redesigned them from the ground up? We'd keep the main idea, but totally redo the innards?

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

Centaurs have eyes that both face forwards for binocular vision. That implies either part of their ancestors' lives spent swinging through the trees, like humans did (I think not!) or... predator. Centaurs are known to be archers. I think we have carnivorous centaurs, and I also think I would not like to be their prey.

[conuly]

Well, is centaurs eating human flesh considered cannibalism? It seems like it to me. Ew.