### id260586517 vision may correlate to intelligence > One possible reason jumping spiders are so behaviorally advanced is that they have the sharpest vision known for animals their size, which is typically just 1 millimeter to 2.3 centimeters in length. They use this visual prowess to find, stalk and pounce on their prey, rather than the better-known spider strategy of building a web and waiting for a meal to arrive. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fqd2xcnbze9rsdcgr94hj2av) - [[Spiders are Much Smarter than You Think by Betsy Mason#id260586517 vision may correlate to intelligence|View in Vault]] - But consider that people with aphantasia usually figure out workarounds and it doesn't ruin our IQ or anything, except for very specific things like how I got an absolutely atrocious spatial reasoning score on the ASVAB. - See also: [[brain size might not always correlate to behavioral complexity]]