Dr. Mireille W. Pedalston1
1 Department of Urbo-Eco-dynamics, Cranberry-Lemon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract
As humans adapt to more urban environments, human symbiotic carnivores known as Mobilitas have proliferated in diversity and number since the 1800s. While many of the phylum and species within the Mobilitas kingdom have historically been solitary and dispersed lone wheelers, as the kickscutiformes class of electromobiliformes or Electric Kick Scooters have evolved alongside walkable cities into a class of herding species. For reasons unknown to Mobilitas ecologists, this class herds in cross-species charging areas despite any evidence of cross-species mating. In this paper we discuss the peculiar behavior of these sidewalk migratorily species and analyze findings to determine what evolutionary benefit is causing this behavior. After analyzing 134 migratory herds in 4 cities, we found that herding populations were resistant to predatory vandalization and larger motor vehicles at the top of the food chain while increasing migratory spread and reach at the risk of sidewalk overgrazing with little issues regarding inter-species breeding.
Keywords: Kickscutiformes (Electric Kick Scooters), Scooter Migration, Sidewalk Overgrazing, Curbana Grasslands, Predator Protection, Charging Watering Holes, Strutting Season, Harem Groups, Urban Savanah, Curbivores
1. Introduction
The gregariousness of electric kick scooters has baffled urban ecologists for years. Despite having an extremely limited home range, electric kick scooters have proliferated across the urban land scape creating an extensive meta population on 12% of urban corners [1]. Although scientists have yet to document two Kickscutiformes’s mysterious reproductive process, it is apparent that they do it a lot as evident from figure 1 [2].
The inter-species herding of Kickscutiforme’s is the most baffling difference between other proliferated mobilitas species. Other than human corralled bike valets, it is rare to see so much inter-species mingling without territorial disputes due to the over grazing of sidewalks. Many wonder if this key trait is the key to their recent population growth [3].
2. Background
Much like the way plants spread progeny through a symbiotic relationship with animals, the Mobilitas spread through a symbiotic relationship with urban humans. As the kingdom has only existed since the 19th century, their biodiversity is only rivaled by the yogurt culture my mother seems to be growing in her fridge.
2.1 Phylogenetic Tree
While it is a mystery where they came from, their evolutionary growth is well mapped and documented. As shown in figure 2, the Mobilitas kingdom is diverse, expansive and rapidly growing. Each phylum is divided based on the power source and form. Pedaliformes, the earliest Mobilitas, are powered by their own symbiotes while Motorigneis developed with an internal combustion engine and Electro-mobiliformes developed rapidly with many different forms to include the popular Kickscutiformes. Similarities across electro-mobiliformes even suggest cross class breeding such as the lime Cyclolectridae and Limentidae [4].
It is interesting to note that while herds of Mobilitas do exist across the kingdom, they are typically short-lived [5] compared to fast developing communities of Kickscutiformes. For instance, bike valets and racks may provide temporary rest and shelter for pedaliformes, they rarely stay together as a unified herd like the Kickscutiformes do. Some propose that while many of this species began in wild herds, they have been domesticated by their human symbiotes much like dogs and cats have [6]. This appears to be true across most species of the Mobilitas kingdom with the stark exception of Kickscutiformes and some Cyclolectridae which remain broadly wild and undomesticated.
2.2 Habitat
With the exception of some cities with pest eradication programs, Kickscutiformes exist in any urban population with a sufficiently dense human population. This should be no surprise considering their human symbiote based migratory patterns. Sometimes preyed upon by Automobilidae and roving bands of teenagers, they thrive most on sidewalk savannahs, dedicated walkways and behind protective medians Automobilidae cannot easily cross. This is at a risk as certain species of Pickupus Truckus sometimes prey upon entire flocks of Kickscutiformes.
3. Methodology
Data was collected and analyzed to evaluate patterns within the sidewalk grazing and herding of the Kickscutiformes in several different environments.
3.1 Data Collection
There were three ecology professors in three different cities that answered our email, so we tested in those three cities as well as our own Pittsburgh. For a period of six months, each professor offered five points extra credit for weekly quizzes to students willing to notate at least twenty Kickscutiformes herds on a single night each week. They preyed upon students with poor grades so the data may be tad inaccurate judging by their prior performance in class. Data was collected in a single google spreadsheet over those months we then later spent a single endless night cleaning and standardizing formats. Nearly 24% of that data was recoverable. Each city contained meta populations of Limentidae (Lime), Avipedidae (Bird), Fulminidae (Bolt), and Equus app-pullus (Lyft) species of Kickscutiformes. There were other species but we decided that more than four would clutter up our graph’s legends.
3.2 Analysis
After inputting all of our data into a pandas dataframe, we asked a friendly LLM to give us some plotting codes and picked the most colorful plots to backsplain including; a nearest neighbor’s analysis (Figure 4) for herd density, a histogram for herd size and diversity (Figure 5), and a co-location matrix to measure each species propensity for gregariousness (Figure 6). We wanted to use a violin plot of species distributions per location but the conservative Texan review committee at a conference determined that they looked too much like hoo-ha’s [7].
4. Results
As you can see in the massive amount of non-descript color blending brown of our opaque colored histogram in Figure 5, the scooter species are pretty mixed. The histogram analysis proves for certain that Kickscutiformes is a herding species as they are far more likely to be in clusters of at least 3 scooters.
As shown in all three analysis graphs, the lime and bird scooters appeared to be the most likely species to stick to their own kind. Clustering occurred much more tightly in nightlife districts and downtowns as compared to transit hubs and especially when compared to college campuses which maintained the least clustered Kickscutiformes herds. As shown in the co-location analysis of figure 6, while all the species comingled, they were more likely to cluster within their own species than in an equal distribution across species.
5. Discussion
The analysis proves the theory that Kickscutiformes are comingling at a significantly higher rate than any other species in the Mobilitas kingdom. It is clear that some of the species are far more gregarious than others as Bolt and Lyft scooters will intermingle among diverse scooter herds than Bird and especially Lime. Many have theorized that, like birds, these Kickscutiformes develop distinctive colors and shapes to signal in-species breeding. This data shows mixed results supporting the theory. While Lime and Lyft have the most distinctive coloring scheme Lime showed the most propensity for same-species clustering while Lyft really got around the Phylum.
The other two theories that are more supported by the data collected are that; Kickscutiformes herd for protection from predatory Automobilidae [8], and they herd when there isn’t a risk of over sidewalk grazing [9]. As inter-species herding is more prevalent in night life districts when the dangers of predatory Automobilidae and drunkards are ever present, the Kickscutiformes appear to herd with their own class of species for personal protection. Additionally at major transport hubs, and these nightlife locations, the only protection appears to be a 6-inch curb or nothing.
On college campuses, there are vast but sparse spaces of sidewalk grazing land and little habitat capable of supporting Automobilidae. Given the green space of a college campus, pavement grazing can be more sparse than other urban environments and the density of herding drops. It was noticed that in Pickupus Truckus predatory interactions, a single species of Kickscutiformes were devoured at a time for some reason unknown to our researchers. With a mixed species herd nearby the preying ground the Kickscutiformes were more resistant to their predators.
6. Conclusion
This data establishes the already known propensity for interspecies herding in the Kickscutiformes class of species in a variety of sidewalk savannahs. The analysis of the data suggests that the large herding is in response of a predatory environment and only when there is not a risk of over grazing. Although inter-species breeding has not been documented, color patterns of each species suggests that these herds form only through social convenience. As this species population explodes across the urban land scape we will learn more about their behavior and biology.
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