Dr. Priya Lund's preprint is four pages long and contains one figure that has made the entire Huburb University biology department go quiet.
Across eleven consecutive mornings, raccoon arrivals in Bellrow plaza varied by an average of 106 seconds. Urban wildlife, Lund notes, typically varies by hours.
"I want to be clear about what I am not saying," Lund said. "I am not saying they have a meeting."
Prof. Wenna Idris, of the Department of Urban Absurdity, was less careful. "Every city eventually produces a system it cannot explain," she said. "Ours has fur."