While I am willing to conceed that ponies do develop faster than humans, I don't think it would be anything like the extent of the speed of real-world equines. I have a vague recollection - and please correct me if I'm wrong - was it not stated that she'd grown Bloomberg from a seedling? Because it would take several years to get a tree that size. Unless you are going to try to argue that the one time we see a baby pony is one that has some sort of disability.Īlso, it follows that gryphons must ALSO have the same age rate as ponies, because of Gilda.įinally, unless we assume that the growth rate of plants is unaturally accelerated, it's getting hard to beleive that Applejack could grow any plants from seed. In addition, the presence of the aforementioned pony baby in Mare-do-well pretty much blows the ponies-develop-like-real-world-equines out of the water, since horses are capable of walking within only hours of birth (they have too, in the wild, of course.) And it would make no sense at all for them to require prams in that instance. As horses reach they full growth in approximately four-to-seven years, we should see a drastic increase in size for the CMC over a period (which at the very least, if both seasons happen at the same time, includes a 3/4 year period between the Summer Sun celebration and the start of the following spring), which we don't. If we're applying real-world timespans to ponies it ALSO means that Applebloom and co are four years or less old, as they are still "fillies". That kind of intelligence doesn't come easily, without extensive genetic programming that ponies has demonstrated they don't have (see: pony baby, more on that later).) Also, there is a pattern with primates that the larger the social group the larger the brain - and ponies seem to live in a society as diverse as humans do, so their brains must be on the same level or better of complexity. Horses, while not stupid, are not very bright. Leaving aside the fact that complex brains a different kettle of fish altogether to develop (there is a reason primates have to be taught to hunt/gather and horses can run shortly after birth - the latter doesn't require much effort. The long and short of it, unless ponies are possessed of a biology that is significantly different to humans and real-world mammals (like completely alien), and ponies are massively racially more intelligent than humans, they simply cannot learn to the same level of intelligence (which they display in the series, up to and including the use of advanced technology and thaumatergy) at twice to three times the speed. I know the lessons they're learning and their social inexperience is what makes people ball park them in the mid-teens or younger range, but I know far too many people in their early 20s who clearly need a refresher course in what the show's preaching to be persuaded that people are done learning about friendship when they hit 18.īut I've also assumed that since I'M 26 I might be mentally stretching their age category upwards since the characters are so dang relateable. Maybe Granny Smith is one of those few.Yeah, late teens/early twenties has always been my estimate too. I think I kinda like the idea that they age like real horses, but yeah, it's not like these vague comments are hard canon so we can still pretty much think whatever we prefer :) Maybe the team will decide on something else, now that Faust is not in charge, if they ever reveal exact ages at all.Įdit: Oh, also, some ponies do become much older than the average. All in human terms, of course.Įdit: Oh, also, some ponies do become much older than the average. She said 12-18 as the range she sees them at where I usually thought of Twilight and Dash being between 17-19 (those two just seem younger to me) and the others ranging into their early 20s.I think I kinda like the idea that they age like real horses, but yeah, it's not like these vague comments are hard canon so we can still pretty much think whatever we prefer :) Maybe the team will decide on something else, now that Faust is not in charge, if they ever reveal exact ages at all.Īnd personally I see them all as being somewhere between 19-22, while Spike is around 6-8. You're right about her seeing them as younger than we usually do too. Well since I don't like to think of Granny Smith being in her thirties I'm going to just assume that no matter how quickly they mature they still live about as long as humans. So nothing really solid but a pretty unambiguous implication that they do mature faster than humans. Ah, I guess I forgot about those comments.
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