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.
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