Oracle Octopus is one of 2010's Top News Stories
Football Match Predicting Critter
The “Oracle Octopus” who is also known as Paul The Octopus, gained fame in 2010 for successfully picking World Cup Soccer Match Winners by choosing between two food boxes in his tank, each of which represented a team. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_octopus . As of July 2010, the octopus has been retired from making predictions, but this does not mean that other oracle octopi will be used to make similar sports betting prognostications in the future.
Is there such a thing as a psychic octopus? Given a choice, is a sea creature able to accurately predict the future? Or is the octopus lucky, which is in itself the equivalent of choosing between several coin tosses in a row, which most people cannot possibly do. If there is such a thing as a creature with psychic abilities, or some way of using animals for fortune telling purposes, it will surely be a newsworthy event, which is one of the reasons that Paul has become so famous.
Notes and Special Information
Special note: The Oracle Octopus craze may not be over since octupi are fairly common.