Fig. 6. Relationships of body mass for each individual African (blue triangles) and
Asian (red squares) elephant with: near-maximal forward velocity (A), minimum
observed duty factor (B), maximum observed stride length (triangles) and
frequency (squares) (C; symbols are dark for African, light for Asian), and
hip height for all elephants combined (D). Hip height (h)
least-squares power curve fit shown: h=0.23M
0.26b; N=60 [excluding two elephants (from
Christian et al., 1999)],
R2=0.73; upper/lower 95% confidence intervals 0.26/0.33.
This result does not change markedly if the baby elephant outlier is excluded
(h=0.26M 0.24b;
R2=0.69), or if RMA (Model II) regression is used
(slope=0.29).