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I have a question about centaur babies.

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BerthaKit · 04/08/2023 12:24

Would the human section be all floppy and helpless like a whole human baby, while the horsey but be able to walk around like a horse baby? Or would both half’s be either humanly floppy and under developed or Horsily matured?

and how would mama centaur birth something that shape?

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Camdenish · 04/08/2023 15:05

Will anyone ask the question of ChatGPT?

swimminginthesun · 04/08/2023 15:07

The birth wouldn’t be an issue - no harder than a horse birthing a foal. Centaurs don’t have human reproductive systems (the human part stops just below the navel) and so the baby would be born from the horse part. Although the fact that there is a human navel suggests that that’s where the connection to the placenta is and not from a horsey navel.

I suspect they would drink milk from the human breasts because they have a human mouth. Maybe they stand on a log to reach?

And I agree that the gestation would be much longer than human so they wouldn’t be floppy and helpless like our babies.

Camdenish · 04/08/2023 15:09

AI feels that the combination of likely developmental stages would present a unique challenge to Centaur parents.

Joey2323 · 04/08/2023 15:09

According to the punnet square there is a 1 in 4 chance the baby will come out either fully horse or fully human

ErrolTheDragon · 04/08/2023 15:16

BerthaKit · 04/08/2023 14:44

Now the cognitive bit is concerning me.
imagine a baby horse trotting around through the forest with the mind of a newborn. They’ll be falling off cliffs and in ponds all over the place.

For once the question about whether to use reins on your mobile small offspring seems uncontentious.

ErrolTheDragon · 04/08/2023 15:21

turbonerd · 04/08/2023 14:34

I thought Mermaids were dugongs or manatees?
with a single, horizontal tail flipper?

Yes, their tails are orientated like aquatic mammals not fish, though they are scaly.

HeidioftheAlps · 04/08/2023 15:23

Nuca · 04/08/2023 12:48

This reminds me of this I saw posted on twitter the other day. I’d never thought of a centaur in reverse but now I can’t unsee it

Found this too

I have a question about centaur babies.
Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 04/08/2023 15:24

turbonerd · 04/08/2023 14:34

I thought Mermaids were dugongs or manatees?
with a single, horizontal tail flipper?

That’s just the rationalist explanation, turbo. We True Believers know better…..

Spudlet · 04/08/2023 15:24

CantFindTheBeat · 04/08/2023 13:01

Definitely this.

They come out aged about 2, ready to go!

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OMG can you imagine though. At least with newborns you have a bit of lead time before they stop staying where you put them. Chasing a toddler 10 minutes after giving birth does not sound fun at all!

ErrolTheDragon · 04/08/2023 15:24

SoundTheSirens · 04/08/2023 13:53

Do centaurs have to be vaccinated against equine flu, or human flu, or both?

Both.

And they'd need a human and an equine passport, which may explain why they're never seen on cross-channel ferries.

GCAcademic · 04/08/2023 15:31

I saw an art installation on precisely this at the Venice Biennale, it included a female centaur who had died giving birth. It was so hyper realistic and disturbing.

We Walked the Earth | The Danish Pavilion | 59th Venice Biennale

Uffe Isolotto’s "We Walked the Earth"; a drama of life and death, hope and despair, in a transhuman world inhabited by centaurs.Step into this hyperrealistic...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KauvUa_Q9h4

LoobyDop · 04/08/2023 15:31

I think centaur babies are born physically foals/toddlers, so able to stand and run pretty quickly, but mental development is a bit slower. And they can only be from a human father and horse mother, or two centaurs, because a human mother wouldn’t survive giving birth to a foal. So actually, they could be born but would be orphaned straight away. Similarly, a unicorn hybrid born to a human mother would rip her to bits on the way out. Grim, but most of the original fairy tales were and got sanitised later.

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 04/08/2023 15:31

@swimminginthesun

« Centaurs don’t have human reproductive systems (the human part stops just below the navel) and so the baby would be born from the horse part. «

Are you sure? Because the battle between the Centaurs and the Lapiths, as shown on the famous sculpture, was caused by the Centaurs trying to rape the female human guests at a wedding. So one has to hope that they were ‘men’ because the alternative is…..mind boggling.

BigMandsTattooPortfolio · 04/08/2023 15:35

In Greek myth, the centaurs were certainly uncouth creatures who tended to get drunk and gallop about abducting nymphs. Apart from Chiron the centaur who was a tutor who taught the gods many skills and was pretty civilised for a centaur.

IHateLegDay · 04/08/2023 15:39

Omg a floppy baby upper half and foal cantering about lower half is killing me 😂😂😂

StBrides · 04/08/2023 15:47

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 04/08/2023 13:04

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2172128/The-joy-T-Rex-How-dinosaurs-sex-tricky-weigh-tonnes-crucial-12-feet-long.html

I knew the answer would be somewhere on the internet. Complete with helpful pics .No stegosaurus mating, though.

The look on their faces!!

StBrides · 04/08/2023 15:47

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 04/08/2023 15:31

@swimminginthesun

« Centaurs don’t have human reproductive systems (the human part stops just below the navel) and so the baby would be born from the horse part. «

Are you sure? Because the battle between the Centaurs and the Lapiths, as shown on the famous sculpture, was caused by the Centaurs trying to rape the female human guests at a wedding. So one has to hope that they were ‘men’ because the alternative is…..mind boggling.

Quite a lot of bestiality in the classical myths

MallardsMoorhensAndLethe · 04/08/2023 15:52

@GCAcademic that's disgusting. The horse corpse part is starting to swell with decomposition gasses, that's why the top two legs aren't touching the floor. Has someone really somehow climbed inside a rotting horse corpse in the name of "art", like it looks in the picture?

tt9 · 04/08/2023 15:58

to the post saying the baby centaur would be born with the cognitive ability of a toddler... sorry but I have questions. when he/she is still inside and has full awareness (in terms of ability to process stimuli on a basic level) - wouldn't that he extremely traumatic? also the cognitive development is linked to stimulation and communication - so how would that work? babies have to learn in order to become toddlers?

SoundTheSirens · 04/08/2023 15:59

Maybe centaur foaddlers (foal-toddlers) grow/age quicker than human babies? Say 1 centaur month = 1 human year?

StBrides · 04/08/2023 16:00

tt9 · 04/08/2023 15:58

to the post saying the baby centaur would be born with the cognitive ability of a toddler... sorry but I have questions. when he/she is still inside and has full awareness (in terms of ability to process stimuli on a basic level) - wouldn't that he extremely traumatic? also the cognitive development is linked to stimulation and communication - so how would that work? babies have to learn in order to become toddlers?

Surely we can look to elephants for clarity here?
Highly intelligent, highly emotionally beings, with long pregnancies and elephant calfs born able to walk and play but definitely still very much babies.

NordVeg · 04/08/2023 16:00

JFDIYOLO · 04/08/2023 13:54

Foals are born with really weird hoofs - they have a sort of rubbery covers called foal slippers to protect the uterus and these fall off during the first day after birth.

https://horseyhooves.com/foal-slippers/

I reckon the baby would be born head first like humans and horses then the horse part would follow on and the slippers would drop off. The relevant bit if the mother would be horse so wouldn't be so bad if it was THE OTHER WAY ROUND 😬

Thank you for the link. That's somewhere between cute, amazing & disgusting

GCAcademic · 04/08/2023 16:00

MallardsMoorhensAndLethe · 04/08/2023 15:52

@GCAcademic that's disgusting. The horse corpse part is starting to swell with decomposition gasses, that's why the top two legs aren't touching the floor. Has someone really somehow climbed inside a rotting horse corpse in the name of "art", like it looks in the picture?

No, it's horrible but not that horrible! It's a combination of taxidermy horse and wax-modelled human upper half I think.

GCAcademic · 04/08/2023 16:03

GCAcademic · 04/08/2023 16:00

No, it's horrible but not that horrible! It's a combination of taxidermy horse and wax-modelled human upper half I think.

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Also I think the swelling is meant to suggest pregnancy. Anyway, there was no smell in the exhibition, other than of straw.

Poppins2016 · 04/08/2023 16:03

Theimpossiblegirl · 04/08/2023 12:32

I suppose it works the same as mermaid babies.

Please elaborate - how do mermaid babies work?!