Fish-like swimming exhibits speeds, efficiencies and versatility relative to body size. Researchers found that minimizing cost of transport (COT) or maximizing swimming speed do not result in optimal efficiency. These efficiencies decrease with swimmer size. Their conclusions explain and bring together past studies about the trade-offs between locomotion and body size and are supported by their computational data covering body size over nine orders of magnitude.

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