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Large animals travel more slowly since they can't keep cool: Study

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Washington: According to a new study led by Alexander Dyer from the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, an animal's travelling speed is limited by how effectively it sheds the excess heat generated by its muscles.

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