The relation between maximal running speed and body mass in terrestrial mammals

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When bigger is not better: The economics of hunting megafauna and its implications for Plio-Pleistocene hunter-gatherers (2016, background): “0.411, R2 = 0.168, p < 0.05) between pursuit time for prey and maximum achievable speeds for the largest-sized prey (>120 kg) (e.g., Garland, 1983).”
Shoulder Height, Body Mass, and Shape of Proboscideans (2015, background): “Past estimates claiming speeds up to 40 km h-1 are dubious (Andrews 1937; Bakker 1975; Garland 1983).”
Ecological Energetics in Early Homo (2012, background): “Similarly, maximum running speed does not differ between carnivores and ar- tiodactyls, even among predator-prey pairs (Garland 1983a; Shipman and Walker 1989).”
Towards understanding wild boar Sus scrofa movement: a synthetic movement ecology approach (2014, background): “This relatively low speed compared with that of other animals of similar size (Garland 1983) could be the result of an evolutionary predator–prey arms race in which selection pressure generated by chasing predators is rather low: wolves, the only significant predator of wild boar, cause less than 20”