On: Why Elephants Don’t Explode: How Nature Solves Big...

[Bartweiss]

I'm confused by the slider task. The explanation simply says that voles eat much more than elephants per unit of body mass, but the sliders suggest that voles literally eat more food per day than elephants.

Are the grass pictures supposed to be interpreted relative to the size of the animals next to them?

[mrec → Bartweiss]

Yes, the article seems to be mostly a roundabout restatement of Kleiber's Law [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiber%27s_law

[jackcarter → Bartweiss]

Yes.