Reuters: Oddly Enough: Can bolting bovine replace Germany's oracle octopus?

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Can bolting bovine replace Germany's oracle octopus? Jun 11th 2012, 13:24 BERLIN | Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:24am EDT BERLIN (Reuters) - Could a runaway celebrity cow replace the late Paul the "oracle" octopus as the next animal with the ability to foretell the fortunes of Germany's national soccer team? Germans will fervently hope that is not the case after Yvonne the cow tipped Portugal to beat Germany on the second day of the Euro 2012 soccer championship in the Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday. Yvonne shot to fame in Germany last year after she escaped from a farm where she was due to be slaughtered and roamed free around Bavaria for three months, eluding the farmer, hunters, animal activists, Ernst the bull and even her best friend. Paul, the mystical mollusc correctly predicted the outcome of all matches involving the German team in the 2010 World Cup, including defeat to Spain in the semi-finals by choosing to eat from one of two containers placed before him. One container carried the German flag and the other the flag of the opposing national side. The bolting bovine was offered a choice of troughs decked out with national flags on Friday and ate from the Portuguese one, Germany's radio Bayern 3 reported. However, she also swiftly moved on to the German trough. Since Paul's death in 2010 at the age of almost three, a ripe old age in octopus terms, Germany has been scouring the animal kingdom for a worthy successor. (Reporting by Elisa Oddone, editing by Gareth Jones and Paul Casciato) Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints

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