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Centaurs have 2 sets of ribcages & internal organs, which make them more resistant to organ failures/heart attacks. (lemmynsfw.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

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?