r/furgonomics

Why do worlds with humanoid animals act like regular animals wouldn’t be a thing?

What do I mean, well very simple, in different stories with furrys as protagonists they act something on the lines of: oh this carnivores and their instincts to devour, they are monsters that have to be repressed and made to eat vegetables for the good of society

Which is kinda dumb because the fact that those animals evolved does not negate the possibility of creatures with animal level intelligence they can use as live stock and eat like where are the non sapient creatures, mainly non sapient mammals, because some story’s have fish or bugs as non sapient creatures,

So yes why does everyone act like the only option for feeding carnivores is the body’s of their fellow citizens when they could just eat meat the same way us humans do it, by farming less intelligent mammals (and less other critters)

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u/Pokemonpro25 — 4 days ago

Would sitting in human made chairs be uncomfortable with digitigrade legs?

The way that humans work is that their legs have two long sticks and one short on at the bottom.
Thus a simple raised slab works fine. The upper portion sits on it, the middle section hangs down, and the final section either sits on the floor or hangs down just a little bit.

Meanwhile the third section of a digitigrade leg is also long, and is not meant for the entire thing to lay flat. It seems to me like attempting to do either would be quite uncomfortable. I dunno how to explain it exactly. Maybe if you are at just the right height it would settle at a more normal angle. At the very least it would be less versatile as humans can be comfortable at multiple heights.

I am curious what you guys might thing of this. Just something that I am curious about.

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u/EnamaFur — 4 days ago

Shower thought: if you turned into an anthro, you could turn your boxers and trousers backwards to solve your most immediate problem before working up to bigger issues.

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u/Nekomachus — 5 days ago

Shoebill aiming a gun [ long snout/beak ] (art by B.rex)

I made this drawing

Show how the Shoebill stork aiming a rifle without scope

u/Lishi_OwO — 6 days ago

How would they wear lipstick?

This is just a quick doodle with my own OC, but how would lipstick work? 1 seems like the obvious choice, but it feels a bit off in a way I can't quite pin down.

u/No_Environment_3444 — 8 days ago

Would rabbits and other species with prominent ears wear specialized armor with ear coverings?

(Art isn't mine, just something I saw that made me have this question) I feel like it'd be better to cover them up as leaving ears exposed could be a hazard, and tucking them underneath a helmet would be mad uncomfortable. Waterloo helmet on the second image as a rough idea for ear coverings rather than leaving it exposed.

u/M3ric4n — 10 days ago

Merman Throne

I was drawing Poseidon (like a big man but he is a fish down the waist) and started to overthink. How would be his underwater throne? Underwater there is no reason to sit. But He should need to rest and show how badass he is. I don't see him rest in the surface like a dolphin. Could you share with me some ideas about the theme, please?

Thanks for your answers.

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u/Eurico_Raposo — 7 days ago

Worldbuilding question: How would you approach those interspecies relationships having children?

The way I thought of is that anthros of the same taxonomic order can have children. The offspring would be the same species as the mother but could inherit some traits of the father. So a snake and a lizard could have children but a dog and a horse could not. For example, one of my characters is a horned rattlesnake. Her father is a western diamondback and her mother is also a horned rattlesnake. Her scale patterns and coloration are mostly that of a horned rattlesnake but does have some faint coloration of a western diamondback.

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u/Snake_of_the_South — 11 days ago