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[[folder: Intelligent races]]
[[WMG: Griffons and Ponies crossbreed, all Pegasus Ponies are descended from Griffons.]]

[[WMG: Horses and ponies are different species.]]

[[WMG: Every sentient race follows the same Earth-Air-Magic dynamic as Equestria.]]

** Jossed with the Season 8 episode "Molt Down", where Spike gains his wings. It's explained that at a certain age, all dragons go through a molt during which they get wings, whereas the greed-induced growth is something different, unrelated to the natural aging process.

[[WMG: Magic causes creatures to become an AmazingTechnicolorPopulation.]]

[[WMG: Hippogriffs and other pony/hybrid species exist in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' universe.]]

[[WMG: Zebras come in other colors in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' universe.]]

[[WMG: Every sentient species has its own PhysicalGod.]]

[[WMG: Griffons and ponies are locked in FantasticRacism, with an angry peace at best and war at worst.]]

[[WMG: Griffons aren't themselves a race.]]

[[WMG: There are other species that use magic.]]

[[WMG: Mules are Equestria's go-to source for migrant labor.]]

[[WMG: Sea ponies are mythological]]

[[WMG: Zebras do have cutie marks.]]

[[WMG: There are other nations in the world of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.]]

[[WMG: Minotaurs are male cows.]]

[[WMG: Hippogriffs exist in the MLP universe.]]

[[WMG: Griffons have a different view of insults and bullying than ponies]]

[[WMG: Okapis, Giraffes, and Deer/Gazelles also exist in the MLP universe.]]

[[WMG: Diamond Dogs are a ServantRace created by the Crystal Empire.]]

[[WMG: Griffons in Equestria tend toward large port cities.]]

[[WMG: Breezies' dependence on Pegasi and/or Griffons (and/or Pegasi Aithiopes if they exist) was Discord's doing.]]

[[WMG: Sentient non-pony species have magic of their own, including a cutie mark equivalent.]]

[[WMG: Zebras are secretly the fourth pony race.]]

[[WMG: The theft of the Idol of Boreas was masterminded by a pony.]]

[[WMG: "Non-sapient" ungulates just don't speak pony language.]]

[[WMG: Donkeys and zebras are from the same place.]]

[[WMG: Corvids are sapient.]]
They are quite close to being sapient in RealLife, and other animals are quite intellignet.

[[WMG: Donkey and magpie culture [[AdvancedAncientAcropolis is very high tech]].]]

[[WMG: Hippogriffs started out as hybrids, but could breed true and established a self-sustaining population.]]

[[WMG: The Klugetown residents are {{Uplifted Animal}}s.]]

[[WMG: The Breezies' Universe is G3]]

[[folder: Animals]]
[[WMG: The Ponies raise pigs to feed their carnivorous pets with.]]

** Presumably the same thing can be said for the chickens, although that raises the question of weither ponies can consume eggs. They must use them in baking.

[[WMG: For an animal, to become a pet is the greatest honor one can be bestowed.]]
Despite being taken care of by the ponies, wild animals still live without names, without homes, and often, without real respect from the [[CivilizedAnimal ponies]]. To be a pet, however, is to get all of that and more. You recieve a name, which ponies use to distinguish you from every other often-identical member of your species; you recieve a comfortable home; and best of all, you get a pony who respects you, not as an animal, but as a friend. That's why Rainbow Dash's test was such a big deal for those animals, especially the tortoise: it's a chance to be somebody for somepony, not just another face in the forest.

[[WMG: Pigs are non-sapient]]

[[WMG: The butterflies that catch Fluttershy are trained/bred/magicked for that purpose.]]

[[WMG: Beavers are either equally or more foul mouthed than...]]

[[WMG: Pun-based Animals]]

[[WMG: Ponies conduct [[UpliftedAnimal uplift]] programs.]]

[[WMG: [[IHaveManyNames Hippocampi/merponies/seaponies]] exist...]]

[[WMG: All sapient races have their own languages.]]

* ... it would?

[[WMG: There is some sort of lady-like bug out there.]]

[[WMG: Giraffes are the Equestrian equivalent of chimpanzees.]]

[[folder: Plants]]
[[WMG: The Poison Joke in ''Bridle Gossip'' came from Discord.]]

[[WMG: ''The Everfree Forest'' came from Discord.]]

[[WMG: The origin of Zap Apples]]

[[WMG: Rocks are edible]]

[[WMG: In the FIM universe, gems grow like plants.]]

[[folder: Monsters]]
[[WMG: The Cockatrice from "The Stare Master" was originally from Fluttershy's place.]]
Since she keeps chickens and an assortment of other animals, it wouldn't be a huge streach if she had a rooster, that managed to lay an egg, which then happened to be incubated by a toad. The cockatrice was hatched from the egg and then left to live in the Everfree Forest.

** No offense, but doesn't a chicken egg hatched beneath a toad make a [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets basilisk?]]

[[WMG: The Cockatrice from "The Stare Master" is a baby, or at least young.]]
The size of the Cockatrice is... underwhelming to say the least, and Fluttershy does call it "young man" and threatens to tell its "mother". An adult would be many times this size and possibly would [[OhCrap have a gaze many times more powerful]], but thankfully they're not particularly agressive.

[[WMG: Parasprites were created to end predation.]]
They're a nonsentient or minimally sentient food source for carnivores. Take a pound of vegetables, set a parasprite on it, wait a few minutes, and you have a pound of meat with practically zero waste... [[GoneHorriblyWrong that was the idea, anyway.]]

[[WMG: Parasprites hibernate.]]

[[WMG: Parasprites spell doom, but not (just) for the obvious reasons.]]

[[WMG: Phoenixes eat Parasprites.]]

[[WMG: Parasprites serve as the basis of Everfree Forest's food web.]]

[[WMG: A Draconequus is the result of a pony and a dragon loving each other very much.]]

*** When he mentioned that he removed everpony's wings and horns to prevent cheating, he elbowed Applejack... Perhaps he was referring to the events of Fall Weather Friends, which he had heard the story of growing up!

[[WMG: Discord is the draconequus equivalent of Celestia and Luna.]]

[[WMG: The Windigos came from Discord.]]

* How could they create chaos if everypony was frozen solid? I think [[EvenEvilHasStandards Discord wouldn't like that.]]

[[WMG: Alternatively, Discord accidentally lured in the Windigos.]]

[[WMG: Timber Wolves aren't individual creatures, but constructs embodying the will of the Everfree Forest itself.]]

[[WMG: Timber Wolves are the spirits of wolves possessing nature.]]

[[folder: Humans]]
[[WMG: There ARE humans in Equestria, but...]]

[[WMG: Humans and ponies both coexist on Earth in the future.]]

[[WMG: There ''are'' humans]]

** Or it's [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever the other way around.]] [[RuleOfFunny Because that would be funny.]]

[[WMG: What ''really'' happened to the humans]]

[[WMG: Minotaurs are half Human!]]

[[WMG: Humans exist but we'll never see them]]

[[WMG: Humans exist in small numbers.]]

[[WMG: All advanced technology is imported from humans]]

[[WMG: Humans live in alternate universe oppisite to ponies...]]
...and when they somehow end up in Equestria the human(s) [[GoMadFromTheRevelation go insane]] and they end up becoming the ponies' version of [[spoiler:[[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]].]]

[[WMG: Humans and Ponies live on separate planets in the VideoGame/FreeSpace Universe... [[spoiler:But there is a secret settlement of Humans on Equestria that have been undiscovered so far, brought to their world by [[{{Precursors}} The Ancient Ones]].]]]]

[[WMG: Humans are mythological creatures in the MLP universe]]

[[WMG: Humans are Ponies. Just in the far future.]]

[[WMG: HumansAreCthulhu.]]

[[WMG: Humans live deep underground.]]

[[WMG: Nightmare is actually from an extinct species.]]

Post apocalyptic? Magic vs technology interference?

** This is scarily like a dream I had after reading {{Fanfic/Cupcakes}} for the first time, that repeated and expanded on itself for several nights.

[[WMG: The Breezies' Universe is G3]]
* Not just because Breezies were originated from G3, but also despite G3 having some dangers, it's much safer than any of My Little Pony's other incarnations (besides Tales but that world is too urban for Breezies).

* Past MyLittlePony franchises feature zebras that come in bright colors just like the ponies. Since Zecora is the only zebra we've seen in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' so far, there's no reason to believe that there are no brightly colored zebras.

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Some nations have populations of mostly Ponies and include the {{Precursor}} nation seen in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve "Hearth's Warming Eve"]], reformed after the Windigo attacks, and the other nations are nations of Griffins, Minotaurs, HigherTechSpecies forms of the cows seen in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup "The Last Roundup"]] (which would explain Pipsqueak), Seaponies, Dragons, Buffaloes/Bison, HigherTechSpecies forms of the sheep also seen in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup "The Last Roundup"]], HigherTechSpecies forms of Phoenixes, and a collective of Changelings who have settled down in various locations around the world.

** We have a griffon in [=MMMMystery On The Friendship Express=], but he's French. Might support the idea that griffons are simply non-natives.

By itself, the Everfree Forest suffers from a classic case of MorePredatorsThanPrey -- it teems with a great diversity of ferocious meat-eating beasts, but lacks any real source of food for them to sustain themselves on outside of small birds and woodland animals or the irregular pony visitor. Parasprites solve this problem rather neatly, being able to very quickly transform massive amounts of vegetable matter into equal amount of swarming, defenseless, ready-to-eat meat on the wing. As small as individual parasprites are, through sheer numbers they can easily provide enough food tom sustain large numbers of manticores, cragadiles, cockatrices, puckwudgies and so on. Even ursas -- assuming they eat meat, or eat anything at all -- can live off of them in roughly the same manner as whales live off of swarms of krill.

[[WMG: Parasprites serve as the basis of Everfree Forest's for web.]]

The movie made it clear that hippogriffs can and do give birth to hippogriffs -- at least, there is no indication that Princess Skystar is anything other than Queen Novo's biological daughter. That being said, their past and origins are just as obscure as any of MLP's species. This theory, then, is that the very first first hippogriffs ''were'' pony/griffon hybrids like in the myths: these would have been clearer bird-in-front and horse-behind chimeras like mythological hippogriffs (or fanon hippogriffs like WebAnimation/SilverQuill). These first-generation hybrids turned out to be fertile (like some hybrids are in real life, although this does usually require very closely related parent species). These hippogriffs were eventually able to establish a self-sustaining population, so that after a while more and more hippogriffs were born to hippogriff parents than to pony and griffon couples. As time passed, this also resulted in the pony and griffon features "blending", resulting in the less visibly chimeric, pale-colored, brightly crested and eared hippogriffs of the show's canon. They settled Mt. Aris, established their nation there, and the rest is history.

*** It's doubtful that Spike is a different breed from other dragons -- the only physical difference, his winglessness, is due explicitly to his youth -- in "Molt Down", he molts and gains wings, and it's revealed that all dragons are born wingless and gain the extra limbs in their puberty.