Why do medium-sized land animals like cheetahs tend to be fastest?
While many key traits such as strength, limb length, lifespan and brain size tend to increase with animals’ size, maximum running speeds tend to be greatest in medium-sized animals. Empirical data show that maximum running speed increases up to a critical body mass and then decreases — the fastest runners are of intermediate size. The…
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