EYES around the world were on Germany’s octopus oracle Paul on Friday as he made his biggest prediction yet in the World Cup. He has predicted that Spain will beat the Netherlands in the final on Sunday.
Octopus Paul chose a mussel from a glass tank marked with a Spanish flag, while ignoring the tank marked with the German colors - indicating a Spanish victory in Wednesday's semifinal.
Paul’s prescient picks in the World Cup and is yet to predict a match wrong, thereby propelling him to international fame from obscurity in an aquarium in the western city of Oberhausen.
TV stations in Germany, Great Britain, Taiwan and elsewhere broadcast live pictures, complete with breathless commentary, of his final decision yesterday.
Millions watched as the eight-legged oracle descended upon on a tank marked with a Spanish flag, sitting for only a few minutes before grabbing a mussel and devouring it, while completely ignoring the Dutch tank, indicating a Spanish victory in tomorrow’s final.
It was the first time the 2 1/2-year-old floppy Octopus had been tasked to pick a game in which Germany wasn’t involved, as the Oberhausen Sea Life aquarium bowed to demand. He correctly called Germany’s wins over Argentina, England, Australia and Ghana and the country’s loss to Spain and Serbia.
He also predicted yesterday that Germany would win over Uruguay in today’s third and fourth place match. Paul first developed his abilities during the 2008 European Championship, in which he predicted five out of six games involving Germany correctly. But while he had only a community of local fans two years ago, his World Cup prognostications has brought him something like stardom. He has his own Facebook fan pages and a list of admirers that includes the Spanish leader.
His handlers say he is coping with fame well.
“Paul is such a professional oracle. He doesn’t even care that hundreds of journalists are watching and commenting on every move he makes,” said Stefan Porwoll, the Sea Life aquarium manager.


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The Octopus predicted correctly afterall!