Hypergifted: warning, spoilers included

I loved reading Hypergifted! Another excellent book! I did catch on as to how the videos were generated before this mystery was solved.  It was the bottom of page 202 where I first suspected it, even though this mystery isn’t revealed until page 241.

I have a question. How is it that Noah was unable to discern that Porquette was pregnant instead of sick when he did it so readily with Beatrice in “Ungifted”?

Granted, one is a dog and the other is a pig. Porquette was displaying the same symptoms which Noah observed in “Ungifted” (pages 168-169) to discern pregnancy in animals (e.g. languid posture).

This isn’t the first time a mascot was pregnant, rather than sick. That one should have occurred to me earlier. After all, Bruno and Boots (way back in Book 1) had their experiences with a mascot who they didn’t realize was pregnant: Myrtle, “The Cougars had a mascot, a thirty-pound alley cat”. Bruno and Donovan had the exact same reaction with: “We’re a father!”

Typical Noah. He programmed a bot which went rogue and launched golf balls. It’s not much of a stretch for another one of Noah’s programs to look deleted when it actually isn’t and to produce videos.

Looking forward to a Book 4! I know that’s a definite maybe. If Donavan is the protagonist, perhaps the title could be “Quasi-gifted”? Or “Ne’er-gifted”? Donovan has his smarts, just a different type of smarts than those of exceptional IQs.