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NEWTON Predicts France Winner Of W/C2018 by Nobody: 8:37am On Jul 14, 2018 |
A footballing parrot named Newton on
Thursday predicted a French victory
against Uruguay in their World Cup
quarter-final, becoming the latest in a
long line of animal soothsayers.
Newton has been trained to knock
around a ball on a small cardboard
soccer pitch, and the team whose goal
he scores in is taken to be the winner.
So far in the tournament, Newton
correctly predicted Sweden’s victory
over Switzerland but failed to call the
Japan vs. Belgium match or England
vs. Colombia, though he did appear to
suggest the game would end in
penalties by knocking the ball out of
the field.
“ For some species, it takes
weeks and weeks to learn to
do something (with a ball),
whereas it takes five
minutes for a kea (species
of parrot from New
Zealand). You give him a
ball, he wants to play with it
spontaneously. You put that
ball on a flat surface where
it'll roll, he rolls it. ”
Newton, who lives in the small zoo in
Paris’s botanical gardens the Jardin des
Plantes, belongs to the kea species
from New Zealand, who have a
reputation for cleverness and love
playing games.
Zoo director Michel Saint Jalme said
Newton took to football like a
professional, and on Thursday
afternoon he was training again with
each goal rewarded with a piece of
dried fruit.
“For some species, it takes weeks and
weeks to learn to do something (with a
ball), whereas it takes five minutes for
a kea (species of parrot from New
Zealand). You give him a ball, he wants
to play with it spontaneously. You put
that ball on a flat surface where it’ll
roll, he rolls it”, said Saint Jalme.
Newton is one of a whole host of
animals including a cat, an otter and
white goat roped in to predict the
results of the World Cup.
Reuters |
Re: NEWTON Predicts France Winner Of W/C2018 by Nobody: 8:39am On Jul 14, 2018 |
My prediction: corect score 2: 1 france and griezman to score |
Re: NEWTON Predicts France Winner Of W/C2018 by Naza25: 8:48am On Jul 14, 2018 |
That parrot will be killed after Croatia win tomorrow |
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