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A #bicycle makes human transportation more energy-efficient than any animal.

Graph I think by colville-andersen.com/

Screenshot of a diagram by coville-andersen: Energy use per km vs. mass of different animals and modes of transportation. While generally the cost per km gets lower roughly linearly with higher weight, there are two outliers: "Salmon" (1/5rd of comparable animals) and "Human on a bicycle": (1/6th of comparable animals).

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