Octopus Paul from Germany, who “foretold” the Germans defeated by the Spaniards in the semi-finals of the World Cup in South Africa until not predicted outcome of the final games of the championship informed a spokeswoman for the network Sea Life aquarium in Hamburg.
Octopus lives in the aquarium in Oberhausen, in his aquarium for predicting placed two glass boxes with flags of teams who will play, and octopus chooses one of them. On Tuesday, several television channels showed live how Paul chose a meal from a box with the flag of Spain. On Wednesday, Germany 1:0 yielded to the Spaniards in the second semifinal of the World Cup in South Africa.
“The prediction about the outcome of the final has not been yet” – representative said.
Earlier, Netherlands newspaper De Telegraaf reported the appearance of the Internet photos, which the octopus of the two boxes of food to choose a box, standing on the left, backed with a flag of Holland.
“There was a photograph of an octopus predicts victory Netherlands, – wrote De Telegraaf. – Unfortunately, it is yet too early. ”
As the representative of the network aquarium, Paul predicts the outcome of the game for third place, which will play the team in Germany and Uruguay, on Friday. This fight will take place on July 10. As for finals, it remains to be seen whether Paul make a prediction.
On the football mundiale-2010 Octopus predicted Germany’s defeat of Serbia, as well as its victory over Australia, Ghana, Britain and Argentina. Forecasts by Paul at the European Championships in 2008, according to a Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, came true with a probability of 80%.