The Reason Small Animals Struggle to Maintain Body Temperature and How Small Animals Counter Low Temperatures Within the Ambient Enviornment, the Reason Large Animals Require Less Food Than Small Animals, the Number of Calories Required Per Day for a Mouse the Size of a Human Being vs the Number of Calories Required Per Day for Human Beings, the Ambiguity of the Reason Large Animals Evolved to Require Less Food Than Small Animals, the Correlation Between Metabolic Rate and Lifespan, and the Impact Upon Lifespan for Animals Which Have Evolved to Become Larger Over Time

Small animals have trouble keeping warm because their surface area is much larger than their volume which is their mass and this small volume makes their bodies work harder to keep warm (eg. faster heartbeat). Larger animals have less surface area in relation to volume which is mass and therefore not as much energy is needed to keep cells alive so less food needs to be consumed per gram or kilogram. If a mouse was compared to a human in relation to direct consumption, a mouse would need to eat 1...

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