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Metabolic Allometry (Kleiber's Law)

BMR ∝ M^¾
Metabolic Allometry (Kleiber's Law)

Basal metabolic rate scales as the three-quarter power of body mass across the animal kingdom, so a doubling of mass raises energy demand only about 68% — larger bodies burn less per gram.

Computed & rendered in pure C# on the frozen OnlyCSharp 1.8 library — animation baked to GIF with the library's own Gif encoder (no GPU, no ffmpeg, no external packages).