Table 3.

Scaling exponents from LSLR of BMR predictions using Equation (4) or Equation (5) with parameters that optimise the fit to data of White and Seymour.

Source of body-weight data	BMR predictions based on:
	Equation (4)	Equation (5)
Heusner (10)	0.701	0.704
Kleiber (1, 3)†	0.728	0.744

^† To make the data of Kleiber comparable to other data sets analysed, multiple data points for a species were replaced by a single data point calculated as the average value of body weight and the average value of BMR for the species. The MLE and 95% CI for the scaling exponent calculated from LSLR are, respectively, 0.750 and 0.728 – 0.771.