Related species of terrestrial animals typically display allometric relations between body-water dynamism and body size. For example, the weight-specific rate of evaporative water loss tends to decrease allometrically as body size increases. What are the mechanistic reasons for these relationships?
Allometry is the study of the relationship of body size to shape,[1] anatomy, physiology and finally behaviour,[2] first outlined by Otto Snell in 1892,[3] by D'Arcy Thompson in 1917 in On Growth and Form[4] and by Julian Huxley in 1932.
