- Adrian Tchaikovsky _Children of Time_ features evolving generations of _Portia_ spiders as recurring protagonists; they were a surprisingly good pick because: * [[Portia spiders experiment]] * [[Portia spiders are devious hunters]] * [[Portia spiders have good number sense]] * [[Portia spiders make contextual decisions]] * [[vision may correlate to intelligence]] - [[The Transcendence of the Sacred Game That Made Us by Axel Gruvaeus]]