Disgusting Ted (2004-03-24)

But if horse metabolism means they only live until 30, and are adult horses by 4 or 5....

I mean, I can't imagine centaur foals are being born with soft baby humans for their top halves... I gotta think they're being born with a like... 5 - 7 year old kid as their top half (something more sturdy than a newborn)... and that due to the shared metabolism their lifespan is somewhere between that of a horses; 25-30 years, and that of humans 60 years (I'm low balling the human age back to like, ancient roman times as I think it's closer to the conditions centaurs would have had and the era they came about)....

So what's that mixed? Like a life span of 45 - 50 years? Whether it's appropriate may come down to how complex centaur society is to understand. Is it mostly just running and grazing? Or do they have houses and complex rituals and/or technologies which require social mores?

This subject is too complicated for me to think about any further. I tried.