{
  "mode": "speciesscale",
  "title": "Life on Earth, from microbe to giant",
  "subtitle": "Approximate characteristic length or height",
  "spd": 4.2,
  "style": { "preset": "editorial" },
  "species": [
    { "name": "E. coli bacterium", "value": 0.000002, "shape": "microbe", "habitat": "MICROSCOPIC", "detail": "A single cell only a few micrometres long.", "color": "#7F77DD", "image": "" },
    { "name": "Black garden ant", "value": 0.005, "shape": "insect", "habitat": "SOIL AND GARDENS", "detail": "Small enough to cross a fingertip in a few steps.", "color": "#E24B4A", "image": "" },
    { "name": "Western honeybee", "value": 0.015, "shape": "insect", "habitat": "MEADOWS AND CITIES", "detail": "A familiar pollinator measuring roughly one and a half centimetres.", "color": "#FAC775", "image": "" },
    { "name": "Hummingbird", "value": 0.09, "shape": "bird", "habitat": "THE AMERICAS", "detail": "Some hummingbirds are scarcely longer than a person's thumb.", "color": "#D4537E", "image": "" },
    { "name": "Domestic cat", "value": 0.46, "shape": "quadruped", "habitat": "WORLDWIDE", "detail": "A typical adult body is under half a metre long before the tail.", "color": "#F0997B", "image": "" },
    { "name": "Human", "value": 1.7, "shape": "human", "habitat": "WORLDWIDE", "detail": "An approximate adult height provides a familiar reference point.", "color": "#378ADD", "image": "" },
    { "name": "African elephant", "value": 3.3, "shape": "quadruped", "habitat": "SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA", "detail": "A large adult can stand more than three metres at the shoulder.", "color": "#888780", "image": "" },
    { "name": "Giraffe", "value": 5.5, "shape": "giraffe", "habitat": "AFRICAN SAVANNA", "detail": "The tallest living land animal can reach about five and a half metres.", "color": "#EF9F27", "image": "" },
    { "name": "Blue whale", "value": 30, "shape": "whale", "habitat": "WORLD OCEANS", "detail": "The largest animal known to have lived can reach roughly thirty metres.", "color": "#4E8FD8", "image": "" },
    { "name": "Coast redwood", "value": 115, "shape": "tree", "habitat": "CALIFORNIA COAST", "detail": "The tallest living trees rise beyond the length of a football field.", "color": "#1D9E75", "image": "" }
  ]
}