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Sticky or magnetic hooves may be true. Although sticky hooves could be more problematic, ponies would have a problem to keep them clean. We have already seen many times how items strangely can attach to their hooves, but it is also this - in Dragonshy they were climbing easily on very steep hillside.

 

No, not only unicorns have magic - but only they can use, control and cast it consciously. The elements of harmony are also magical and can interact with any pony species. If comics are canon there is also an (visible) example of all Mane6 using magic - the magic of friendship.

 

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I support the magic theory. After all, passive magic is shown with Pegasi, because why should just having wings allow you to walk on clouds?

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If I had to guess, I'd say that equines and most sentient races, not just the ponies have some innate magic or telekinetic power that allows them to grasp objects with their hooves, barring cartoon logic, which is far more consistently applied to Pinkie mainly  :blink:.

 

Unless I'm wrong, a normal pony shouldn't be able to bend its limbs the way Equestrian ponies do either:

 

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Then again regular ponies in our world don't have that high level of intelligence, let alone speech capabilities, magic and multi colored manes in those colors.

 

Oh and since we're already in the discussion this is a clear example of a non pony demonstrating the same hoof grasping phenomenon (not really a big deal but eh -_-):

 

 

Oh yea it also pretty effectively proves that alicorns and unicorns are not the only species capable of using magic directly. Gotta love Zecora.   

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OR, it's a cartoon about talking technicolour ponies and the animators decided to say "screw it, I don't feel like coming up with an alternative for this" when presented with the need for a pony to grab something. :umad:

 

Plus, it looks adorable when they do it.


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Well, you see, kids.

 

Once upon a time,

 

Everything you see in cartoons like MLP doesn't use logic. Ponies can grasp things with their hooves.. but one thing: they don't have fingers. 

 

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My guess would be that they somehow bend the ends of their hooves so that they can somewhat grab things. I know this isn't possible in real life, but this is Equestria.


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I've wondered how hooves work in the MLP universe. If the hooves work like they would IRL, it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to effectively hold anything, but in MLP, we see on a few occasions ponies successfully hold various items. (Like the stick in the example.) Is it just that hooves in MLP are different to those in real life? I guess it is an animated show, and isn't expected to follow reality, but I'd like to hear other peoples thoughts.

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many fics joke that only earth ponies can hold things in there hooves like that as part of there own magic. Pegusi either use their mouth or wings and the unicorns with the horn using magic.


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Well basically there is no logic behind it at all. It's just shown as this so the ponies can do more stuff in the show. Otherwise they would not have as many possibilities and it would not be as fun to watch. :)


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In reality, it's just for the show's convinence, the animators just say screw it and make them like hands. But in the MLP universe's respect, I think hooves have a bit of magic in them, helping any pony to pick things up.


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I've seen ponies hold/balance objects on the soles of their hooves, but I don't remember seeing them hold anything in a way which would actually require the use of fingers.

 

But we've even seen 1 or 2 moments in the show where ponies possibly used 2 of their hooves to hold something, (One of the spa ponies holding a hoof-file, for example) and honestly, I would kind of prefer if it was like this. Unless there is evidence that ponies holding objects in a seemingly questionable way is the work of magic.

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Maybe they work the same way for the horses in Gulliver's Travels? Underneath the horse's hooves, there is an concave indent that allows them to grab objects similar to if we as human would use fingers to pinch?

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It's Lauren freaking Faust who worked on the show. She's got a way of doing that, you know?

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My thought is that their hooves are covered with incredibly small hairs like a geckos feet. they can stick to or "grab" anything using van der waals force to attach to the item at an atomic level, like a gecko, and they can then easily drop them, like a gecko, this explanation would allow them to be able to choose what to stick to or "grab" and explain how they can hold seemingly any object.


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All Ponies must got passive magical hooves, to allow them to pick up stuff and do stuff like a Human hand, that otherwise would be impossible.


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It's really just one of those cartoony quirks that aren't meant to be payed too much attention to.

I'm pretty sure in one episode Fluttershy starts biting her hooves and comical "fingernails" start flying all over the place. Forget which episode that was in, though.


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It's really just one of those cartoony quirks that aren't meant to be payed too much attention to.

I'm pretty sure in one episode Fluttershy starts biting her hooves and comical "fingernails" start flying all over the place. Forget which episode that was in, though.

Then you obviously haven't seen the big pile of hoof shavings that results when a farrier gives a horse a "hooficure".

 

But yeah, in the end "don't think to hard about this" is probably the only answer that works.

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