Ooohhh, what a great-looking tiger taur! *tries to squeeze the furriness*
And that seems to be a real issue around here! Would tiger-centaur (human upper half) and tigertaur (anthro upper half) work?

I know, couldn't you just die for all that wonderful furriness? His tigery body is just begging to be hugged and squeezed and fondled. I want to run my fingers through his lushious furry coat.

Snakes would be allowed to squeeze, so long as they're gentle.


Might work. I was thinking of that too. Because you've obviously got centaurs vs equitaurs. But centaur has obvious horsiness associated with it. (Or would a tiger centaur be a horse lower body with an anthro tiger top?)

Er-erm-ermm... I'll promise to be gentle! Just wanna toy with all that fur O.O
Well, that's up for debate as well! Perhaps an increase in usage of rather obscure terms like tigaur or felitaur would help remove the confusion then. Still, it's too niche a topic (unfortunately) at the moment to set anything in stone

Alright. A snake hug sounds nice. And I bet this guy will even roll onto his back and start purring if he gets belly rubs.

For that reason, I was hoping to get a general term to apply to all kinds of taurs. Like, 'taur' and I don't know 'feraltaur'

Would it be weird for a tigertaur/tiger centaur to hunt a tiger? Or maybe even, say, mate with one?

1) Maybe a little weird, and 2) definitely super weird! I'd guess a taur guy would see the creature of his lower half like we see a chimpanzee. But back in the day of big game safaris they certainly didn't have too many moral qualms about hunting anything though. You have to remember, this was before Al Gore invented the environment. These were the days of bag the creatures, burn the coal, slash and burn. So Tigers could definitely be their game.

Though I think that would be a waste of a good tiger. I say traq them, then find some zoodoo shaman lady to merge the tigers with humans to make more huggable snugglable tigertaurs!

I see. I was just curious about the second one because some people are into that kind of thing, usually with the prerequisite of the feral having human level intellect

Oh yes, that's probably fine :) I generally just don't imagine intelligent ferals as part of my worlds.

They probably wouldn't be hunting them thought.

Personally, I'd call this a tiger centaur, if he had an anthro upper body I'd call that a tiger taur! Then again, I don't use that convention for my own dinosaur centaurs, so yeah it's confusing

Alright. Get me the furry president. We need to get our finest linguists on this.

Whatever we call them, I think we can agree we need more. Many more :D

In my classification (which I came up to categorize my porn pic collection), I use the term "centauroid" to specifically refer to taurforms with human (or nearly human) upper bodies.
I just use "furry taur" for a creature that has an upper body of an anthropomorphic animal.
And the terms like "felitaur" or "canitaur" (in my opinion) simply refer to any 'taur (both with a furry or non-furry upper body) with a feline or canine lower bodies.

I really haven't been able to figure out what term to call furry taurs with different base species for their lower and upper bodies yet.
There aren't many of those around, but they are very interesting.


And, regarding the above pic, wouldn't the centauroid tigertaur be in serious danger if there are any other hunters nearby? It would only take a few moments of leaving his "rear end" exposed for him to become someone else's trophy himself.

I like centauriod vs furrytaur. My main aim was to avoid using taur for either of them, keeping that as a general term for all of them. And I wanted to avoid centaur, so as not to steal it from the horsebutts. Your classification does both nicely.

I like centauriod. I'll have to think about furrytaur, I think I still might like feraltaur better. But I could get used to using anything that starts to become the norm. Either way I think the next step is to get everyone to start using the terms.

We need a centauriod and furrytaur/feraltaur awareness day! :D



I think you're right, the dual species taurs, while cool, are super niche.




You're right there also! I didn't think of that. Yep for that reason, I think he probably hunts alone, deeper in the jungle than any humans usually go. In modern days, taur hunters probably wear reflective vests on their lower halves. But, I think the turn of the century was pretty blasé with safety. So taur hunters were told to keep their wits about them, walk it off if they get shot, and told to get at it with a smack on the furry butt.

Can I ride on his back?