• wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Neither. The neck is the long part, and do horse-based centaurs have horse necks?

    Giraffe centaurs would be underwhelming.

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 day ago

      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.

      • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 day ago

        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.

      • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        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!! 🤣