Furry Height Suggestions
12 years ago
For my next story, I really want to use various heights for furry kind based on their true feral sizes. For example:
Horses: Average stallion heights will be about 6'8.
Small size canines: 5'2 to 5'4
Medium Size Canines: About 6'0
Large Canines: 6'2
Rodents: 4'6
Small Felines: 4'10
Large Felines: 6'4 to 6'6
Kangaroos: 6'2
Bulls: 6'2
Agreements/Suggestions?
Horses: Average stallion heights will be about 6'8.
Small size canines: 5'2 to 5'4
Medium Size Canines: About 6'0
Large Canines: 6'2
Rodents: 4'6
Small Felines: 4'10
Large Felines: 6'4 to 6'6
Kangaroos: 6'2
Bulls: 6'2
Agreements/Suggestions?
Rodent
Small felines
Small canines
Medium Canines
Kangaroos
Large Canines
Large Felines
Horses
Cows
Average male human height is 5'8", so I'd assign that to the medium canines as a base and have individual measurements vary about 20% in either direction within a group, and maybe nudge each 'step' up by about 4 inches, making each tier significantly larger or smaller, but still keeping a humanish range, since we have several orders of magnitude difference in the mass of the smallest rodent and the largest cow. Assuming for the typical 20% variance in a population without exceptional circumstances (more than 20% lower height is dwarfism and more than 20% above is giantism) we get the following:
Lowest Normal - Average - Highest Normal
Rodent 3'11.5" - 4'10" - 5'9.5"
Small felines 4'1.5" - 5'2" - 6'2"
Small canines 4'3" - 5'4" - 6'5"
Medium Canines 4'6" - 5'8" - 7'1"
Kangaroos 4'9.5" - 6'0" - 7'2.5"
Large Canines 5'1" - 6'4" - 7'7"
Large Felines 5'4" - 6'8" - 8'
Horses 5'7" - 7' - 8'4"
Cows 5'10" - 7'4" - 8'9.5"
I made small felines only slightly smaller than small canines, since they tend to be relatively the same size, but similar 'height' dogs tend to be more heavily built than the felines.
This comes out to a pretty accurate and plausible range for each of the anthro critter types, considering that those heights don't surpass the outliers for largest (by an inch and a half) and smallest (by two feet) adult humans ever recorded. Of course there would need to be a bit of alteration in muscle and bone structure, since the human biology isn't really meant to scale up that big. It starts to get pretty derpy up in the 7' region. But I could easily see these heights being scientifically plausible.