Ok, I just don't agree with your original formula "distance = m * sqrt(range) where m = number of kangs", so if I have one million kangaroos I need to use one million larger jumps

https://people.scs.carleton.ca/~paulv/papers/JoC97.pdfPage 6, last paragraph: alpha = m * sqrt(b) / 4
There is no such formula on page 6.
My bad, the page layout was confusing. Page 13, last paragraph, before formula (6) (which looked like a page number instead).