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Dear Tor and Silver, is it ever an odd sight to see an anthropomorphic horse riding on a regular horse?

tigerknight:

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Nothing odd about that.  It’s just the way things are :)

Well, for those not satisfied with that response, I suppose I’ll make up an explanation of how anthropomorphism works in the S&amp;S and CC/9t9 universes.  It works like our own: certain species today evolved from a common ancestor.  So in the same way humans and chimpanzees evolved from CHLCA, biped (“anthropomorphic”) horses and quadruped (“feral”) horses evolved from a proto-horse.  The former became sentient, intelligent, stood upright, wrote poetry, etc., while the latter became a wild animal, later domesticated, became resistant to tickling and stomped on poetry.  Thus their side-by-side existence is no weirder than having a monkey riding on a human’s shoulder (though if the monkey wore clothes while the human didn’t, then <i>that</i> would be weird).

Horse on horse:

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Horse in horse car:

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