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you can say "chimoora" instead of "cow of tailed snake" if you want. its a good pun.
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I have a terminal case of bovine pungiform encephalopathy, the bovine puns are cowmpulsory
they/them/moo where "moo" stands in for "you" or where it's funny, like "how are moo today, Lupi?" or "dancing with mooself"
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This is a question Ive been asking myself. They're kind of the combination of two (or more) creatures into one creature, except for a lot of taurs Ive seen around its the same kind of creature twice. Does that count as a chimera?
And it gets even more muddled when you look at the root origin for the terms too, since centaurs and the mythological chimera were both specific things and not at all the same thing, but language has evolved since then too...
A relevant recent (in the grand scheme of things) pop culture interpretation is D&D's classification of centaurs as monstrosities,1 a group consisting of magically-engineered hybrids.
Relatedly, if a taur with matching upper and lower halves counts as a chimera, does an anthro shark with a tail that's really an entire shark from the neck down count as a chimera?
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When they introduced playable centaurs it was in a Magic: the Gathering book, so those were classified under the fey type instead.
Ooh, neat! And really, shark classification is one of the many mysteries of the world...
