The travel speeds of large animals are limited by their heat-dissipation capacities

Largeanimals travel more slowly because they can't keep cool, finds study plos PLOSBiology

) yields the expected ranges for these scaling exponents according to the underlying processes: The allometric scaling exponent, which describes the initial increase in potential travel speed with increasing body mass, and thus, larger animals’ greater capacity to supply metabolic power combined with their higher locomotion efficiency, fell within the range of these theoretical expectations .

Currently established models of animal locomotion typically produce power-law scaling relationships between locomotion speed and body mass by considering the dominance of a particular set of biophysical constraints on one critical aspect of the locomotion process; for example, biomechanical safety factors and the risk of physical injury [

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