#seriously tho I have one (1) year of highschool biology

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Gross question: So do centaurs have Horse organs in their horse half? Or do they have different organs. I’m asking because I was thinking we’re there any things that horses cannot eat that centaurs also cannot eat?

This is a Hard Question that requires a lot more biology heavy-lifting than I have the energy to do right now sdfghfd, but centaurs in all my AUs are by nature opportunistic omnivores. In the sense of something like War Horse AU, this is just the ability to thrive on most forms of diets a human can (just in larger quantities, ofc). However in a more extreme environment like Herd AU, this means the centaurs are equipped with the tools to eat anything from tree bark to raw meat.

SO, this means that the centaur digestive system is not the same as a horse's, because horses are herbivores. Since centaurs are ungulates and the only true omnivorous ungulate is the pig, I imagine their digestive capacity would be somewhat similar to a pig's-- though the orientation of the organs would likely still be mostly consistent with what we see in horses.

As far as things horses can't eat that centaurs can't eat, the fact that centaurs are omnivores means bad food for horses and bad food for centaurs aren't necessarily one-to-one. HOWEVER, I can leave you with the fact that horses can't vomit and it's likely that centaurs wouldn't be able to either due to how their bodies are structured. So if something poisonous goes down it's not coming back up, meaning centaurs are probably very careful about avoiding spoiled food due to the fact that it can Literally Kill Them