scaling laws
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It’s Body Length, Not Mass, That Lets The Cheetah Run So Fast
Cheetahs sprint at a blistering top speed of about 95km/h, while the domestic cat runs at about 48k/h, close to a blue whale’s 48k/h, and a three-toed sloth runs less than 1.5km/h. A new paper by a pair of French physicists concludes that it’s the body length, not the mass, of the animal that determines…