Whether an animal is flying, running or swimming, its traveling speed is limited by how effectively it sheds the excess heat generated by its muscles, according to a new study led by Alexander Dyer from the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, published April 18th in the open access journal PLOS Biology.
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