isn't 13 almost too old for a horse?
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Nah. Adult horses start at 5yo. Considering centaurs would need extra time to learn and develop their brain I would expect them to take as long as a human.
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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.
Obligatory reminder that low human life expectancy has always been due to high infant mortality, and even in ancient times anybody who survived to adulthood was likely to live to old age.
A chimp also lives just 30-40 years, orangutans upto 50. I would expect their life expectancy to rise.
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