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Re:Birds had to relearn flight after meteor wiped out dinosaurs by yay_cloud2 on Friday May 25, 2018 @07:45PM (#17159116)
Can someone help me understand how to read/interpret this graph? I tried to make sense of it, but I think I was only fooling myself. I need to get planed.
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Re:Birds had to relearn flight after meteor wiped out dinosaurs by vanderZwan on Friday May 25, 2018 @07:57PM (#17159177)
The lower on the graph, the more energy efficient. The further right on the graph, the heavier the object.

So the trend is towards more efficiency per kilogram for heavier animals, presumably due to square-cube law[0]. Or maybe the 3/4 scaling law[1][2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%E2%80%93cube_law

[1] http://mathbench.umd.edu/modules/misc_scaling/page20.htm

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFFVSvAr7Wc

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