Girth Comparaison of Animals

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@brotherbear :

About #154: If you want to estimate an animal's weigth, you have to take into account the whole whole cross section of the body and the animal's length over the curves because the muscles structure intervenes in the cross section shape and in the body length. Put two same bipedal height men into a quadrupedal posture, the former with a desperately flat back, the latter more athletic back with undulating curves due to his more developped musculature. The muscles intervene as concerns a three dimensionnal size estimation. If they intervene as concerns the body cross section, they intervene too as concerns the body length.

And yes you cannot deny that the camel's "unfolded back" is longer than the horse's more rectilinear back. Even if both animals seem to have the same body length. Reply