Goddess Erosia
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Alright after remembering what your actual first comment was I see what you were sort of getting at a couple of posts ago. Your other points confuse me though... I think we're branching off a little from each other.
You say it's unfortunate that we don't see more interaction between ponies and meat-eating people. I agree, I'm very curious to see how they would touch on things like that, and I guess of all the different races we're now being exposed to we don't really see much carnivores around. Unless you count the cat guy from the movie, but I don't know if they ever actually even talk about him being a carnivore or if they do what Zootopia did and only show him eating sweets. Dog people seem to have a mixed-to-negative reputation in Equestria, but you can't really tell if that's because of them being omnivores or if that's just the way it is, more or less because.
I still don't think what you were implying earlier would be something to expect from MLP as it is in this generation,
with "MLP could teach that you don’t HAVE to be friends with everyone. Or even that you shouldn’t. Maybe they could have a begrudged respect for one another or a not-so-friendly rivalry.". I don't think MLP wants to encourage or even just showcase racial tension much without then turning around and showing why it's bad, as it's already done at least once pretty straight forwardly, with the origin story to Equestria's foundation. I could be misinterpreting this but it sounds like you're implying the show should have situations where the Ponies, as a collective, have a situation with carnivore people and the show comes to the conclusion that certain people should just stay away from eachother. That's not what the show is about at all...
it just doesn't quite seem to be a fitting kind of political dynamic. Changelings, though not canonically "carnivores", are a pest/predator-ish kind of race though and things are looking up for them. I think the movie is making Hippogryphs a bigger deal in Equestria now, and I would assume their diet would be the same as a Gryphon.
Sorry for the double post but I can't edit the last one anymore.
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> I view it as a gryphon could eat a pony, but griffins wouldn't eat ponies in the wild because the ponies are good at defending one another and stay with the herd (and a unicorn could have a nasty surprise in store for you)[/bq]
Personally I think Gryphons at some point could have been a natural predator to wild ponies, in the sense that even primitive unicorns probably didn't have very good magic. Magic seems to be a kind of skill which is refined over time and study, a lot like a science. But magical. I mean they're basically a lion-hawk. They could easily just swoop in and grab even a full grown normal horse - which is what a lot of art in other universes depicts them doing. As for the herd-mentality... The basic reasoning behind that survival method in animals is that it's a sacrifice of the few for the safety of the many. Safety in numbers means that as a giant herd, you're more likely to survive so long as you stick with everyone and keep running. But the instant you lack behind or trip, you're the first one to die and the predators stop chasing the rest, who get away. That's what happens all the time irl. Although the show never explicitly said this, I personally feel that ancient ponies probably got eaten by ancient Gryphons a lot, but at some point in the future once they became people - and then later more modern people - the Gryphons probably stopped eating their newfound friends. The real question is...what do they eat now? Dragons are a kind of ehh thing in the question of herbivore vs carnivore because in MLP's universe, dragons all eat crystals. They can be aggressive and territorial, but their diet seems to only be crystals, which is a play on the mythos that dragons were evil treasure-stealers who lived in caves with their plunders.
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Alright after remembering what your actual first comment was I see what you were sort of getting at a couple of posts ago. Your other points confuse me though... I think we're branching off a little from each other.
You say it's unfortunate that we don't see more interaction between ponies and meat-eating people. I agree, I'm very curious to see how they would touch on things like that, and I guess of all the different races we're now being exposed to we don't really see much carnivores around. Unless you count the cat guy from the movie, but I don't know if they ever actually even talk about him being a carnivore or if they do what Zootopia did and only show him eating sweets. Dog people seem to have a mixed-to-negative reputation in Equestria, but you can't really tell if that's because of them being omnivores or if that's just the way it is, more or less because.
I still don't think what you were implying earlier would be something to expect from MLP as it is in this generation,
with "MLP could teach that you don’t HAVE to be friends with everyone. Or even that you shouldn’t. Maybe they could have a begrudged respect for one another or a not-so-friendly rivalry.". I don't think MLP wants to encourage or even just showcase racial tension much without then turning around and showing why it's bad, as it's already done at least once pretty straight forwardly, with the origin story to Equestria's foundation. I could be misinterpreting this but it sounds like you're implying the show should have situations where the Ponies, as a collective, have a situation with carnivore people and the show comes to the conclusion that certain people should just stay away from eachother. That's not what the show is about at all...
it just doesn't quite seem to be a fitting kind of political dynamic. Changelings, though not canonically "carnivores", are a pest/predator-ish kind of race though and things are looking up for them. I think the movie is making Hippogryphs a bigger deal in Equestria now, and I would assume their diet would be the same as a Gryphon.
Sorry for the double post but I can't edit the last one anymore.
Also,
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> [@Goddess Erosia
> I view it as a gryphon could eat a pony, but griffins wouldn't eat ponies in the wild because the ponies are good at defending one another and stay with the herd (and a unicorn could have a nasty surprise in store for you)
Personally I think Gryphons at some point could have been a natural predator to wild ponies, in the sense that even primitive unicorns probably didn't have very good magic. Magic seems to be a kind of skill which is refined over time and study, a lot like a science. But magical. I mean they're basically a lion-hawk. They could easily just swoop in and grab even a full grown normal horse - which is what a lot of art in other universes depicts them doing. As for the herd-mentality... The basic reasoning behind that survival method in animals is that it's a sacrifice of the few for the safety of the many. Safety in numbers means that as a giant herd, you're more likely to survive so long as you stick with everyone and keep running. But the instant you lack behind or trip, you're the first one to die and the predators stop chasing the rest, who get away. That's what happens all the time irl. Although the show never explicitly said this, I personally feel that ancient ponies probably got eaten by ancient Gryphons a lot, but at some point in the future once they became people - and then later more modern people - the Gryphons probably stopped eating their newfound friends. The real question is...what do they eat now? Dragons are a kind of ehh thing in the question of herbivore vs carnivore because in MLP's universe, dragons all eat crystals. They can be aggressive and territorial, but their diet seems to only be crystals, which is a play on the mythos that dragons were evil treasure-stealers who lived in caves with their plunders.