How to Safely Interact with Hippogriffs

While hippogriffs are sapient beings, they can nevertheless cause serious harm to humans when provoked. This guide is intended to teach children aged 4 - 11 how to safely approach them.

DO NOT PUT YOUR HANDS NEAR A HIPPOGRIFF’S FACE.

• Hippogriffs are piscivores (fish-eaters), so they have hooked beaks designed to tear off flesh that can easily pierce human flesh.
• Fledglings (hippogriffs under the age of three years) will instinctively nip anything placed too close to their mouth - including fingers. Their beaks are not sharp enough to draw blood at this age, but they can still cause bruises.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO RIDE A HIPPOGRIFF WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT.

• Much like a Terrestrial horse, hippogriffs will buck when they feel threatened. Being thrown off a hippogriff’s back can cause paralysis, brain injury, and even death.
• While hippogriffs are not as skittish as ponies and are unlikely to trample a human, they will still kick anything behind them that threatens them with enough force to break human ribs.

DO NOT TOUCH A HIPPOGRIFFS’ FORELEGS

• They may instinctively swipe at you. Just like their beaks, hippogriffs’ talons are shaped and hooked, meaning they can dig into skin and cause long-lasting, deep wounds that require hospitalisation in the most severe cases.

Miscellaneous

• Hippogriffs consider someone touching their wings the greatest insult of all, and will easily lash out.
• If a hippogriff bows their head as you approach, it means that they trust you.

Comments

[Knight_of_hope]

How big are they?

[Nitro Indigo]

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An adult hippogriff is as tall as a horse in my headcanon.