The team of researchers was drawn from Imperial College, London, Harvard University, the University of Queensland, and the University of the Sunshine Coast. Who has discovered how the muscles of animals move, and how they are able to run fast with their help. Report According to, the study Nature Communications Has been published in the journal named. The study says that the fastest running animals neither include huge creatures like elephants, nor very small creatures like ants. Rather, this ability has been given to medium sized creatures like cheetah.
Studies show that animals who run at lightning speed achieve this speed based on two factors – how fast they run, and how far their muscles can contract. Maximum speed is determined by what limit these animals can reach first, which is determined by their size.
Scientists have called the first limit the Kinetic Energy Capacity Limit. This limit is a measure of how much muscle contraction limits the animal’s movement. The second limit is called work capacity limit. This explains how large animals are controlled by the contraction of their muscles.
Both these limits decide how fast the animal can run. And the size of leopard is an animal i.e. medium size which is found in creatures of 50 kg, both these limits are present in such animals. Therefore these animals run very fast whose speed can reach up to 104 kilometers per hour. Researchers tried applying the same model to larger animals as well. And with its help, they also got an accurate estimate of the speed of these animals and the maximum speed with which they can run.