Talk:Kimihito Kurusu/@comment-24053170-20150813212402/@comment-26824352-20150907235241

Perhaps, but horses usually sleep several times throughout the day without a single rest period, and commonly sleep standing up, whereas centaurs don't. An arachne may be spider-like, but that is not to be confused with actually being a spider.

They may have a lot of traits of spiders, but it would be, simply put, implausible on every level for an arachne to eat its mate. Breeding discourse or no, that constitutes man-eating, and any such behavior would have seen an aggressive response form humans long before the exchange program came about. Lamiae may kidnap and rape men, but that's not the same as eating them: the exchange workers aked them to stop and they stopped, because that's a part of their culture and open to adjustment as per the give-and-take of diplomacy. If a species had a physical inclination to consume its mate, it would similarly be asked to cease such behavior, though I again stress that that sort of thing would have seen the species hunted to extinction by offended humans.

Also call to mind the large breed arachne subspecies, which is incredibly aggressive. Despite its short temper and combative nature, it is not listed that it eats people, and omission of such a prominent note would be inconceivable.