I’m worldbuilding and the main races are all half-human. I can’t think of what the centaurs should wear! Like, they’re mostly peaceful except for this one band that goes around raiding the others. And the human half is lightly furred up to the sternum; the skin is the same color as the fur.
Should they even wear anything? I need input.

centaurs have six limbs and are therefore insects. discuss.

centaurs have six limbs and are therefore insects. discuss.

Centaurs, how do they work?

How are they born? Which nipple set do they suckle from? Where are their lungs and their guts? Are they vegetarian, or omnivore?

Well, lets think about this, with veterinary science!

Birth

Foals are born with long legs and a long neck that can get in the way with disastrous consequences for both mum and bub. Humans are born relatively underdeveloped compared to foals, but with a fully functional respiratory and digestive system. The centaur foal would have to keep the human torso between its front legs when birthing, or everything is going to be stuck. Now it’s cramped inside a mare uterus anyway, so it would be easier if the centaur foal is born more on the underdeveloped side, more in line with the human development.

As long as the lungs are mature, and it can digest milk, having a relatively underdeveloped foal body should be no issue. Usually premature foals have great difficulty feeding as they can be too short to reach the mare’s nipples. The centaur mare luckily has the ability and intelligence to sit down and cradle her young while feeding them from the torso. 

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Anyone else remember playing the Legend of Zelda as a kid and being seriously spooked by those hand monsters that would drop from the ceiling, Wallmasters I think they were called? I hated them back then, but I kind of love them now, and that’s what I was thinking of when a ‘Disembodied hand monster’ was requested for this Fantasy Biology post.

Originally posted by wildcosmia

Most fantasy species are at least superficially similar to a real, living or extinct species from which to draw inspiration and scientific understanding. A 'hand’ that crawls around on its own, eh, not so much.

Originally posted by sharkpilot

Unless we stretch what we know of biology quite a bit.

Viewing our hand monster from the outside, which is really all we have to start with, we find five limbs (fingers and thumb) and a body (the palm and wrist in some cases). Even if you consider the 'thumb’ to be some sort of tail-like-limb, it doesn’t really resemble the anatomy of any vertebrate species. It’s barely even bilaterally symmetrical, it’s actually closer to radial symmetry.

And the Earth does have a handful of radially symmetrical creatures. The jellyfish and anemone being some.

Yes, I’m going to argue that the Hand Monster is some sort of very distantly evolved land jellyfish.

You know you love it.

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Time for a seasonal Fantasy Biology, and this time my lovely Patreon supporters have chosen the Living Snowman. Not something I’d ever see down here in Australia… or would I, out of their disguise?

Living snowmen are a frequent occurrence in Xmas myths, from the friendly Frosty…

Originally posted by atomic-chronoscaph

To a creature more my style…

Because of course I look at this pile of ambulatory snow and think “This is clearly a well-camouflaged ambush predator.”

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I understand that tall men are our POV characters, but surely being like a foot taller than everyone around them would have some occasional consequences