How to pronounce “kleiber” in English

This became known as Kleiber's Law.

So according to Kleiber's Law, an elephant burns roughly 178 times as many calories as a cat, or about 45,000 kilocalories.

- In the decades following Kleiber's observation, the mystery only deepened.

exactly as Max Kleiber had found.

- Dodds even argues that Kleiber's Law itself might not be true.

much larger than Kleiber's range.

Many uphold Kleiber's Law and the three-quarter scaling, while others think it's two-thirds.

Swapping in the scaling law Kleiber had found, that gives us M to the minus one quarter, meaning bigger animals should have slower

From the surface law to Kleiber's law to WBE theory, how metabolic rate scales with mass has been one of biology's biggest debates for centuries.

If that's true, Kleiber's Law governs life spanning more than 25 orders of magnitude.

But then in 1932, Swiss biologist, Max Kleiber, decided to put it to the test.

- So West, Brown and Enquist teamed up to try and find a compelling explanation for Kleiber's Law.

But remember, West, Brown and Enquist wanted to explain Kleiber's Law.

So lifespan is proportional to M over B, or substituting in Kleiber's Law, M to the one quarter.