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@lalonsander@chaos.social Something else is that the vertical axis is per km, so absolute distances. It would be interesting to see this worked out not for absolute distances, but for relative ones with respect to the animal's body length. That way smaller animals will most likely not end up plotted as a lot less efficient compared to larger ones that do travel kilometers instead of just meters or even cm at a time. For context: I remember reading somewhere that the fastest land mammals are cheetas in absolute speed terms. But with respect to body size, cats are in fact faster. And the fastest mammal on land in terms of body size turns out to be a hare. (A bat wins the fastest mammal battles if you include flying.) The record fastest land animal in terms of body size displacements per unit of time is in fact a tiny mite: https://www.ibtimes.com/worlds-fastest-land-animal-has-new-name-meet-paratarsotomus-macropalpis-mite-made-speed-1577349