That’s it.
There’s no way that a human heart would be able to pump enough blood to supply the full vascular needs of a thousand pound centaur.
Most likely, the human halfs heart is more of a vestigial organ or more of an assisting organ to help ensure that even under strenuous cardio that the brain receives enough blood flow to operate optimally.
The lung system though is definitely a weird one. I would be more inclined to believe that there are no lungs in the centaurs human half, maybe the areas that are lungs in a human would be something like a cud sack or some sort of extra biliary devices to increase the amount of acidity to break down their largely herbivorous appetite.
The lungs could be in the human half but just be far larger than typical human lungs. If the organs in the lower part of a human torso are in the horse half it would make room for more lung in the human torso. I don’t imagine you want too much room between the nose/mouth and the lungs if you can help it.
Good point! I was thinking kind of like giraffe, they obviously must have some sort of like very long breathing tube to make it from their head to their lungs.
Maybe centaurs have like some sort of gill system or whatever that would be for land walking mammals?
If the horse heart fails, the human heart might just be strong enough to keep the rest of the body alive as long as you don’t move much. Probably not a long term solution, but it’s better than nothing.
I am unsure whether centaurs have a joined or separate circulatory systems. Worst case - they’re separate for horse & human body. But if they’re joined, then I think a centaur may survive on 1 heart, as you’ve said.
Imagine a wounded centaur with the horse part dead and the human part just writhing on the ground fully alive. Morbidly hilarious that image is
Yeah… honestly, it depends on how they’re built. Because it might work on one of interpretation of the centaur’s internal biology, but not on another. Still funny though.
Well, I figured that a platypus doesn’t have a separate system for the duck part and another one for the beaver part.
They also produce both eggs & milk, thus they can be enslaved for infinite supply of omelette.
Just add sugar and wheat to make some cake.
I’ve seen certain images that depict them having two sets of sex organs as well.
Idk about that, 2 sets of internal organs just means there’s twice as many that can fail
Or twice as many to sell. Now selling 3 kidneys per person won’t be a problem.
Unless the changes in anatomy require more kidney activity. Consider how horses pee.
Centaur Timelords confirmed.
Centaurs are Klingons. Got it.
Or twice as vulnerable.
