Octopus "Paul", he was born in England and grew up in Germany. Now lives in Germany's Oberhausen Oceanarium. Paul in the World Cup in South Africa has "successfully predicted" the German victory over Australia, Ghana, lost to Serbia's group stage results, and in the World Cup Quarter-Finals, Germany will beat Argentina. On the evening of July 3, Germany played against Argentina, and finally did beat Argentina 4:0 to enter the quarterfinals. This was followed by a successful prediction of Germany losing 0:1 against Spain. Then he successfully predicted Germany to beat Uruguay 3:2 and finally he successfully predicted Spain to win the World Cup with a 1:0 victory over Holland! This year's World Cup in South Africa has a 100% prediction rate, with all 9 matches won! He predicted the European Cup tournament, the hit rate is also 80%, coupled with the current World Cup prediction, Paul prediction accuracy has risen to 92.85%.
1, in the World Cup in a row in the prediction of the German team's first four games, has been the world-famous octopus "Paul" once again to make predictions: in the World Cup Quarter-Final of the strong dialog, Germany will beat Maradona led by the Argentine team, into the semi-finals. 2, octopus "Paul" this performance, seems to indicate that this in the staging of the showdown between the two teams is likely to draw, and through the penalty kicks to decide the winner, and ultimately good at punting the German team will win. The last World Cup quarter-final, Argentina and Germany after 120 minutes of competition 1-1 draw, penalty kicks in the German team eliminated Argentina. Octopus Paul prediction match results:
Euro 2008
6 times in 5; prediction success rate: 83% Group stage first battle prediction Germany won Poland Result: Germany 2-0 win Group stage second battle prediction Germany negative Croatia Result: Germany 1-2 loss Group stage final battle prediction Germany won Austria Result: Germany 1-0 win Quarter-final prediction Germany won Portugal Result: Germany 3-2 win Semi-final prediction Germany win Turkey Result: Germany 3-2 win Final prediction Germany win Spain Result: Germany 0-1 loss
2010 World Cup
8 predictions, 8 times, 8 times hit; prediction success rate 100% Group stage opening prediction Germany win Australia Result: Germany 4-0 win Group stage second prediction Germany lose Serbia Result: Germany 0-1 loss Group stage final prediction Germany 0-1 win Group stage final prediction Germany 0-0 win Germany 0-0 win Germany 0-0 win Germany 0-0 win Germany 0-0 win Germany 0-0 win Germany 0-0 win Germany 0-0 win Germany 0-0 win Germany 0-0 win Germany 0-0 win Germany 0-0 win Germany 1-0 win 1 loss Predicted Germany to win against Ghana in the final group stage Result: Germany 1-0 win Predicted Germany to win against England in the 1/8 final Result: Germany 4-1 win Paul the Octopus predicted Spain to win the championship Predicted Germany to win against Argentina in the 1/4 final Result: Germany 4-0 win Predicted Germany to lose against Spain in the semi-final Result: Germany 0-1 loss[2] Predicted Spain to win against the Netherlands in the final Result: Spain 1-0 first time World Cup Champion III, Germany won against Uruguay Result: Germany defended the third place 3-2 In the final stage, Spain won against the Netherlands, which was the first time that "Paul" the octopus predicted a non-German match. Result: Spain 1:0 Netherlands Won the World Cup. [2]
Prediction Methods
1, the curator put the shells with the German and Argentine flags into the glass tank, and the fastest to take out the German shells before the England game, the octopus "Paul" on the Germany-Argentina showdown is a little "hesitant! Paul the octopus was a bit "hesitant" about the Germany-Argentina match, "thinking about it for up to an hour" but finally took out the shell with the German flag on it. Octopus Paul predicted that Germany in the eighth to eliminate England 2, Paul has been staring at the glass tank containing the German flag, until see we want to take away both glass tanks, he finally jumped to the glass tank containing the German flag shell, remove and swallow the mussel, the aquarium's spokesman said, his actions are all indicative of Saturday's game will be a very tough game, and may be played! extra time and decided on penalties. But in the end it was Germany that prevailed. However, the final result was beyond everyone's expectations, with Germany beating Argentina 4:0. 3, although the octopus "Paul" is currently living in Germany, but the spokesman said that there is no need to worry about he will favor his current country. Because he was born in the United Kingdom, is a "many generations of immigrant descendants", its ancestors may also come from Argentina. Predictions England vs Germany Predictions Germany vs Argentina
Century showdown
Octopus Paul and crow's mouth Pele's century showdown before the German-Argentinian war, octopus Paul and crow's mouth Pele launched the century "prophecy" showdown. In the German-Albanian war before July 1, the king of the ball Bailey again open "golden mouth", claiming that in the German war in the German team, he also told the media that: "Germany in the two years before the European Cup has shown the world that they are able to play a very beautiful attacking soccer, this World Cup, they are more let me! convinced of this." This is not to let the German fans greatly alarmed, because Pele's "prediction" is always contrary to the actual results. But another World Cup prediction guru, Germany's little octopus Paul before the game on the side of the German team. In this World Cup, the England-born, grew up in Germany, small octopus Paul guessed the German team before all four games. In the face of the German war, after an hour of "deep thought", choose Germany as the ultimate winner. The results of the game also proved that the strength of the small octopus Paul to be higher than the king of the ball Pele's "crow's mouth", the German team successfully eliminated Argentina into the quarter-finals. The Argentine fans were so upset that they claimed on their website that they would cook the star octopus, who lives in the Oberhausen Seaquarium, and eat it.
Media reports
Media annoyed to cook it With Germany's World Cup triumph, Germany's lucky star, a magical octopus named Paul, is also gradually known to fans around the world. Before this, the octopus had successfully predicted the German team to beat Ghana and England's game, of course, the loss against Serbia also did not escape Paul's prediction. Before the match, Paul predicted that Serbia would win the match, and the Serbians lived up to their prediction and took the match with an outstanding performance. Before the match, Paulo's extraordinary predictive ability caused fear in the Argentine media, the Daily News even indignantly wrote this magical octopus into the recipe: "We just need four ordinary potatoes, olive oil, and a little pepper. That alone is enough to bring Paul down." Star chef Nicholas Bedloe cruelly wrote in his Facebook post, "We're going to catch it and put it on paper. Then we beat this octopus up in order to get it to make predictions the way we want it to. And finally, dip it in boiling water." Apparently, the Argentines wanted to turn the octopus named Paul into "seafood soup". It is no wonder that the Argentineans so resent the octopus, Paul's ability to predict out of this world is indeed frightening: before the start of each game, Paul will be marked with the flags of both sides of the glass tank to make a choice, Paul's choice of a side will become the winner of the game. And in the German team in the previous four games, Paul made the prediction is completely correct. So when Paul chose the glass jar with the German flag before the match, all the German fans couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, while the Argentines inevitably felt nervous. Sure enough, the boys of the German team did not let Mr. Octopus trust, blood wash favorite Argentina to reach the World Cup quarterfinals, the magical octopus Paul renewed his prediction legend. And now, when the German team launched a final assault on the title of world champion, people will not forget the credit of Mr. Paul as well. Now it seems the Germans will have to protect their "lucky star" as the losing Argentines look to make a "seafood soup" out of it.
Latest predictions
Paul predicts the second final [3]Paul predicts the second final 2 [4]Paul the octopus semi-final predictions Spain beat Germany to advance to the final Germany local time July 6 at 11:00 pm (Beijing time on July 6 at 17:00), the much-anticipated octopus of the Auberhausen Aquarium, the name of the octopus of the World Cup octopus Paul predicted the World Cup semi-final Germany and Spain. The octopus named Paul on the World Cup semifinals Germany and Spain made predictions, and ultimately Paul chose Spain - which means that it believes that the European champions Spain will beat the momentum of the German team in the semifinals to enter the final. When the World Cup was in full swing, no one would have thought that so many people in the world would care about an octopus and be so concerned about his predictions. From the start of the World Cup so far, living in Germany Oberhausen Aquarium Paul on the German team's prediction of all the matches, so far the probability of guessing is 100%. As the game enters the semifinal stage, concerned about the team's victory or defeat of the fans began to track Paul's every move, Oberhausen Aquarium staff notified in advance of the semifinal "octopus action" is at 11:00 local time on the 6th. As the moment approached, the Oberhausen Aquarium's website was severely overloaded, resulting in pages not opening properly. In addition, Germany made a live text broadcast of "Operation Octopus" on its website, which attracted the attention of a large number of Internet users. In the end, the octopus Paul chose Spain, the site's broadcaster in the announcement of the results at the same time, said: "I hope that Lefebvre's boys can turn the situation to save the semi-final." However, in Euro 08, Paul was precisely wrong in predicting the Germany vs Spain match. But in the end, Paul and magical prediction success, Spain 1:0 Germany So, now want to make octopus Paul "seafood soup" into the Germans ...... Paul's latest prediction: the winner of the third place belonging to the afternoon of July 9, Paul on the South African World Cup last The final and third-place playoffs in South Africa, Paul predicted. Paul predicted that the third place belongs to Paul predicted that the championship belongs to
"Prophecy emperor"
Called the best World Cup "prophecy emperor" In the early hours of July 8 Beijing time, with Puyol's header, Spain 1-0 beat Germany, and entered the World Cup final. The world cup final is expected to be the first time to win the world championship. Together with this game, octopus Paul in the World Cup against the German team made six predictions all correct, correct rate of up to 100%, surprising, called the World Cup best "prophecy emperor". At present, the octopus Paul *** counted 12 predictions, correct 11 games, the correct rate of up to 92%, accuracy is comparable to the computer. Of course, octopus Paul predicted the 12 games were eventually divided into winners and losers, not a draw, which is enough to highlight the octopus brother predicted the correct rate. [5]
Scientific interpretation
Because the World Cup, octopus "Paul" can be described as red. Why did the Germans choose not a crocodile, not a shark, not a whale, not a dollfish, but an octopus to predict the game? In fact, the rigorous Germans know that the octopus is an extremely intelligent marine animals. Octopus The octopus has a fairly developed brain, can distinguish themselves in the mirror, but also can get out of the maze designed by scientists, eat the crabs outside the maze. It has three hearts, two memory systems, 500 million neurons in the brain, called the escape master, in order to avoid "predators" of the hunt, the octopus in addition to the use of familiar mimicry camouflage, shedding "wrist", will also use the two-legged "walk" to escape. In the tropical waters of Indonesia, someone photographed a kind of octopus called Maginnettes, in the face of danger or encounter divers, this octopus will be eight "claws" in six upward bending and folding, make the coconut shell mold, and the remaining two "claws" will be The remaining two "claws" will stand on the seabed on the ground, secretly moved backward, like a small coconut will move, in order to backward stride walking way to escape, the posture is very funny. The other octopus, the walnut-sized ekulitus, also walks bipedally, but with the other six legs extended outward to mimic the appearance of seaweed. Obviously, the octopus's carpals do not have joints or much in the way of bones or skeletal muscles, but it does. Biologists believe that the octopus's carpal tunnel activity is very unique, its camouflage "power" does need a little "brain". Originally, the octopus has a "conceptual thinking", able to solve complex problems alone, this ability to make its two feet "walking" skills. Because the octopus is considered to be invertebrates in the highest intelligence, so, the Germans chose the octopus to predict the World Cup. 2010 World Cup, the octopus "Paul" only predicted Germany's game, and achieved 5 consecutive victories. The original octopus prediction is a German trick. Some people will ask, why other countries do not use octopus to predict their own team's victory or defeat, the answer is that the colors of the German flag is the octopus like to eat food colors. Stable structure myoglobin is necessary for octopus to survive in the deep sea, octopus is keen to eat shrimp, crabs and other crustaceans because of astaxanthin. Astaxanthin is the strongest antioxidant, is to ensure that the structure of myoglobin is stable and not oxidized necessary conditions. Shrimp and crab are rich in astaxanthin, and the red substance of cooked shrimp and crab is astaxanthin. So the rule of the game is that the flag-covered container must have these foods in it in order to attract the octopus to climb in. The German flag is black, red and yellow, which are the colors of the octopus' favorite food, clearly hiding in the darkness two prawns. He would definitely prefer to attack such a target. Australia's flag is dark blue + red beige, the octopus thinks the food is too small to choose, so Australia loses. The flag of Serbia, on the other hand, not only has a red shrimp, but also a red crab, which the octopus thinks is more attractive, so it doesn't choose Germany, and Germany loses. Ghana's flag is reasonably similar to Germany's, but it's precisely because of that five star that the octopus thinks there's an impurity or danger and chooses Germany instead, so Ghana loses narrowly to Germany. And England? A striking red cross, which constitutes offense to the octopus, instead prompts the octopus to choose Germany, resulting in a big loss for England. Argentina, without any color to attract the octopus, was inevitably defeated. July 6, 2010, "Paul" in the prediction, someone analyzed that the semi-final Germany against Spain, if the octopus to choose, Germany has no chance. Because Spain's national flag is three prawns and a crab. As a result, the octopus did choose Spain. But this does not explain the 2008 European Cup, "Paul" to give up Spain, choose Germany's reasons. In the vastness of nature, almost all mollusks are color-blind, most of their eyes have degenerated. The octopus is clearly not color blind. The octopus has an abundance of cone and rod cells, which allow it to distinguish colors acutely. The octopus's eye is very similar to that of vertebrates, with a cornea, lens, iris, and retina that allow focused imaging. However, it differs from vertebrate eyes because it focuses light by adjusting the distance between the lens and retina, whereas vertebrates focus light by changing the size of the lens. Octopuses can recognize shapes, color intensity and object texture texture. Another difference is that the octopus has no blind spots in its eyes; its nerve cells are on the outside of the eye. [6]