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Not only football experts- a whole menagerie joined them ..
Most of the participants in this kind of rating were "Russians" - the Hermitage cat Achilles, the goat Zabiyaka, the dolphin Vanda, the bear Aurora, the lion Lord, the dachshund Gigolo and the horse Brant. Among the foreigners, a psychic boar named Mystical Markus and a Croatian gibbon Kent showed themselves as oracles.
The method by which the forecast was made was simple: on the eve of the match, the animal chose an object marked with the symbols of a particular state.
In the skin of Cassandra
Boar Mystic Markus, British by origin, in mid-June to determine the countries that will go to the semi-finals of the championship.
Apples with flags laid out in front of the animal different countries- participants of the football championship. As a result, the boar "ate" Belgium, Argentina, Nigeria and Uruguay, which meant that they would reach the semi-finals.
Those who listened to Marcus's forecast are biting their elbows today - of all the winning states he has chosen, only Belgium has reached the semi-finals.
The snow-white deaf Hermitage cat-foreteller Achilles is sure of Russia's victory in the match with the Egyptian team. The cat's premonitions were not deceived. However, in the match Sweden - Switzerland, the blue-eyed inhabitant of the basements of the country's main museum missed - the Swedes won, although the cat chose a bowl that stood next to the flag of Switzerland and ate from it.
The Samara goat Zabiyaka on June 24 accurately predicted the results of the games with the teams of France and Brazil. But her victory for the Russian team in the match with Uruguay did not come true.
Dolphin Wanda, an inhabitant of the Sochi Dolphinarium, on July 1, Russia's victory over Spain in the 1/8 final match of the World Cup. Wanda was asked to choose one of two soccer balls with team names written on them. The choice of the dolphin fell on the ball with the name of our team.
The day before, on June 30, Harry, an otter living in the Moscow Zoo, competed among oracle animals. And although Harry had been very successful in his predictions three times before, the bet on the victory of the Spaniards spoiled the animal's reputation as a predictor.
When passions run high...
By the time the quarterfinals started, the number of oracle animals had increased dramatically. For example, they were joined by the polar bear Aurora from the Krasnoyarsk park of flora and fauna "Roev Ruchey". Predator victory of the Russian team in the 1/4 finals of the World Cup. Alas, the bear's prediction did not come true.
Lev Lord, an inhabitant of the Sakhalin Zoo, his prediction for the match between Russians and Croats on July 6. The animal was offered bowls of meat adorned with the flags of the opponents in the upcoming game. The king of beasts did not break the comedy with false patriotism: he preferred a treat from the "Croatian bowl", swallowing both the flag and the straw at the same time. And, as it turned out, he was right.
Excessive intelligence summed up the dachshund-oracle from St. Petersburg. A dog named Zhigolo is a vessel with a Russian tricolor. It is not known whether the representative of the group of equids will continue his career as a predictor, but it is unlikely that anyone will rush to bet on the basis of his predictions.
Lucky gibbon Kent, who lives in Croatia, until July 7, never made a mistake when predicting how events would develop on the field. This time, the scent is on Kent's luck - for some reason he chose a Russian nesting doll. However, the authority of the gibbon in some circles is so great that even this outright blunder will not embarrass his fans.
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The football fever of the 2018 World Cup is in full swing.
Who will become the world champion, and who will remain outside the football festival?
Predicting the outcome of matches is another World Cup and European football game that has become widespread over the past decade.
Who will win the 2018 FIFA World Cup
The outcome of the game the team undertook to predict to people the so-called oracle animals.
The match prediction process takes place in a very simple way: an oracle animal chooses one of two balls (or any other object) that has the name of the country written on it or the flag of the participating country.
Thus, with its choice, the oracle "predicts" the victory of one or another team.
Octopus Paul
Recall that the tradition of predicting matches in this way originated at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Thanks to his accurate predictions, the German octopus Paul then became a real sensation and a world celebrity.
Then the tradition of predicting the outcome of matches was continued by other animals.
Animal oracles 2018
The main oracle of the 2018 World Cup was White cat named Achilles, who lives in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
What is known about this animal?
Achilles is a resident of the city of St. Petersburg, he is about 2.5 years old. The animal is named after one of the characters ancient Greek mythology. Achilles continued the path of his parents: he is in the service of the State Hermitage.
The animal serves honestly and regularly does its job: it protects the masterpieces of world culture from rodents. The cat is not thoroughbred, but beautiful, prone to overweight, so the Hermitage workers carefully monitor his diet and periodically put the cat on a diet.
According to museum staff, Achilles is a deaf cat, but it is his deafness that contributes to the development of clairvoyance. The cat really has a very keen sense of smell.
In addition, due to his deafness, Achilles is not distracted by extraneous sounds and does not experience additional stress when he is filmed on cameras by endless paparazzi and ordinary curious people.
"This happens quite often: when you lack something, it is compensated by something else," says the Deputy Director of the Hermitage and press secretary of watchdogs Maria Khaltunen. "That's why he can safely be called a good oracle."
The deaf cat predicts the victory of one of the teams by choosing a bowl of food (a standard technique used by animal oracles at this World Cup).
What did Achilles the cat predict?
The "career" of the Hermitage cat is as follows:
Confederations Cup matches - 2017 (3 correct predictions out of 4), as for the 2018 World Cup, the cat guessed 4 out of 5 matches. Thus, on July 1, 2018, Achilles accurately predicted 7 out of 9 matches, his efficiency is 78 percent.
But Achilles is far from the only animal that can predict the outcome of matches with amazing accuracy. Only in Russia there are at least a dozen such predictors.
So, the following animals were included in the list of so-called oracles: the bear Yakov Potapych from Moscow, the female tapir Cleopatra from Nizhny Novgorod, the lemur Spartak from Yekaterinburg, the Sochi otter Harry, the goat Zabiyaka from Samara.
Forecasts of Yakov Potapych
Bear Yakov Potapych is a resident of the capital and is rightfully considered a Muscovite.
Yakov Potapych was not mistaken when he predicted the victory of the Russian team in the matches with Saudi Arabia and Egypt, he also predicted a draw in the match of such giants of world football as Portugal and Spain. In addition, the clubfoot predicted a draw in the Argentina-Iceland match.
By the way, it was Potapych who so amused many guests of the capital at the very beginning of the World Cup, when he appeared before them in the form of his national team. This cheerful predictor is also an unspoken symbol of Russia.
Tapir Cleopatra
And in the Nizhny Novgorod zoo lives a female tapir named Cleopatra. She has long been a favorite of both residents of the city and visitors. The animal is very sociable, easily makes contact, and more recently it also makes predictions for the games that take place in its hometown. Nizhny Novgorod.
It is worth noting that Cleopatra accurately guessed the outcome of three matches in a row, correctly determining the winner. However, for the fourth time, the animal made a mistake and before the match Argentina-Croatia chose a bowl on which the flag of Argentina was depicted.
With her choice, Cleopatra let people know that she was betting on the South Americans, but everything did not go according to this scenario: the game ended with a score of 0:3 in favor of the Croats.
Lemur Spartacus
A lemur named Spartak, who lives in the Yekaterinburg Zoo, also makes predictions for the 2018 World Cup matches.
Spartacus is offered a choice of two plates of delicacies - a banana or dates. The outcome of the match depends on what the lemur prefers.
Lemur has already guessed the outcome of several matches, including the victory of the Russian team over Egypt and Saudi Arabia. But in the Russia-Spain match, Spartak behaved unpatriotically, predicting victory for the Spaniards.
As we all already know, the Russian team beat the legendary Red Furia in a penalty shootout. Therefore, the animal was wrong in its prediction.
Otter Harry
Otter-predictor Harry lives in sunny Sochi, the animal also guesses the outcome of the games at the 2018 World Cup.
It is worth noting that Harry is one of the five oracle animals, which almost always correctly guess the results of matches.
Harry accurately predicted the defeat of Saudi Arabia and Egypt in the games with Russia, she also pointed out that the Russians would lose to the Uruguayans.
But in predicting the match between Spain and Russia, the otter also behaved unpatriotically. Two balls were thrown into a pool filled with water: with the image of the flags of both countries. Otter purposefully headed for the ball with the Spanish flag.
Thus, the otter predicted defeat for her compatriots, and, as it turned out, she was mistaken in her predictions. The Russian team won the game against the Spaniards.
Goat Ruff
Goat Zabiyaka, who lives in the Samara Zoo, also gives very accurate predictions regarding the matches of the 2018 World Cup.
The animal guessed not only the matches that took place in her hometown of Samara, but also the rest of the games that were held in other cities of Russia.
But the last prediction of the goat turned out to be wrong. The bully made it clear that the Mexican team would beat Brazil in the one-eighth final. However, the miracle did not happen: the Brazilians are in the quarter-finals, and the Mexicans are packing their bags and going home. The goat made a mistake in its prediction.
Dolphin predicted the match
And, of course, we must pay tribute to the dolphin with the prophetic name Wanda. The mammal lives in the Great Sochi Dolphinarium and also makes its own predictions.
This is the only animal from the list of oracles that predicted a sensational victory for the Russian team in a difficult game with the Spaniards. Russian fans immediately dubbed Wanda the dolphin the most patriotic oracle of this World Cup.
Only he believed that our players could defeat one of the strongest football teams of the Old World.
There are a huge number of animals and plants in the world that serve as barometers, temperature indicators or predictors of storms. The United States is famous for the legendary weather forecaster Phil, and cats and dogs around the world are excellent earthquake experts. In the world of sports, there are also animals with the gift of divination. Before the start of the World Cup in Brazil, the "Championship" recalls the most famous.
Octopus Paul
The German professor of predictions, the kind octopus Paul became famous all over the world during Euro 2008. The eight-legged oracle specialized in predicting the matches of the native German national team. On the eve of matches, two transparent feeders with flags of rival teams were placed in Paul's aquarium, after which the octopus crawled into the one he liked, thus making his choice.
During his short career (octopuses live about five years), Paul made predictions 14 times for football matches, of which he was wrong only twice. After incorrectly predicting the final match of Euro 2008 between Spain and Germany, the octopus was no longer mistaken and brilliantly guessed all the outcomes of the 2010 World Cup matches in South Africa. The final match between Spain and Holland was Paul's last and only prediction that did not include Germany.
On the day of Paul's death on October 26, 2010, flags were flown at half mast and a book of condolences was displayed at his home aquarium in Oberhausen. At the moment, the ashes of the famous octopus are immured in a monument depicting Paul with soccer ball, which is installed in the aquarium.
The octopus in Germany was replaced by a new predictor, this time a female. An elephant named Nelly began her career as an oracle on women's championship World Cup 2011. Two gates were installed in front of Nelly, over which the flags of the teams flaunted. The task of the elephant was nothing less than to score a goal! The team into whose goal the ball flew first was declared the loser.
Having guessed almost all the matches with the participation of the Germans, Nelly suddenly gave the victory to the Japanese before the quarterfinal match. The forecast was very dramatic: five times the elephant was close to hitting the Japanese gate, but on the sixth projectile it nevertheless flew into the target of the German national team. And indeed, in the match, the Germans were several times close to scoring a goal, but the victory in the end was celebrated by the Japanese, 1:0.
By the way, Nelly absolutely correctly predicted the outcome of the Champions League final match between Bayern and Borussia in favor of Munich.
Boar Funtik and ferret Fred
During Euro 2012, Ukrainians decided to give the world two new Nostradamus at once. The first was a 400-kilogram pink boar named Funtik. Funtik made his predictions in a completely uncomplicated way - two bowls with the image of the flags of the national teams were placed in front of the animal. Both bowls contained equal portions of corn sticks. The outcome of the duel depended on which of them the huge boar approached.
During the European Championship, Funtik guessed only half of the results, among which was a bet on Russia in the match with the Czechs. So the boar did not become a successful forecaster. But he was remembered for the fact that he liked to drink beer with fans.
Another fortune teller, a ferret named Fred, also used bowls of food to tell fortunes. True, instead of corn sticks, the animal was treated to beef. Like his boar colleague, Fred only guessed half of the results of the European Championship. Ferret confidently led the Portuguese and Germans to the semi-finals, but in the final, Kharkiv resident Fred made a mistake, preferring the Italian team.
Otter Harry
The main predictor Olympic Games In Sochi, there was a male otter named Harry. At first, his girlfriend Ashley also took part in the forecasts, but the female quickly got tired of annoying TV cameras and resigned her solemn powers. So Harry took the rap for two.
Two balls with the names of countries were thrown into the pool. Harry pulled one of them out onto land, which was considered the predicted winner. Having made a series of successful predictions, among which are the victories of the Belarusian biathlete Darya Domracheva and the Japanese figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu, the male otter made a mistake in the fateful match between our hockey players and Finland.
After that, mistakes began to be made more often, but the staff of the Sochi zoo, where Harry lives, said that the animal began to get tired due to a large number forecasts. In addition, Harry became very fat, as he made 4-5 predictions a day, for which he invariably received goodies.
Crab Petrovich
Norwegian by origin and Belarusian by passport, an experienced sailor Crab Petrovich predicted the outcome of the past hockey championship peace in Minsk. A huge marine inhabitant was thrown into an aquarium with a hockey puck, on both sides of which the flags of rival teams were pasted. After some manipulations, Petrovich threw the puck to the bottom of the aquarium with a claw, and the team whose flag remained at the top was considered the likely winner.
It is worth saying that the crab did not undertake to predict the matches with the participation of his native Belarus - as they say, out of sin. And not always the forecast turned out to be correct - in the match between the French and Canadians, Petrovich boldly bet on the latter and, as you know, lost. But he was always accurate with our team - in all matches, the crab invariably bet on Russia.
Turtle Big Head
A huge sea turtle, nicknamed Big Head, joined the slender ranks of fortune tellers. The day before the start of the World Cup in Brazil, football goals were installed in the pool, on the net of which the flags of the participants in the opening match, the national teams of Brazil and Croatia, were fixed. The turtle gave preference to the hosts of the tournament, having eaten a tasty fish near the yellow-green flag.
Will Big Head's career be as successful as that of the legendary octopus? We will find out very soon. If the turtle manages to guess most of the matches, then it will occupy the niche of the main oracle for a long time sports competitions. After all, everyone knows that turtles, unlike octopuses, live for more than one century.
The results of the 2018 FIFA World Cup matches are predicted not only by sports experts, but also by animals. Moreover, the latter are often more accurate. On the eve of the start of the World Cup, MIR 24 presents the most interesting predictions of four-legged oracles.
Hippos from the Kaliningrad Zoo Mil and Glyasik predicted a draw in the Russia-Saudi Arabia match. According to the press secretary of the zoo Ekaterina Mikhailova, employees put two servings of treats for animals in the outdoor enclosure - fresh grass, vegetables, grain mixture. Near each set a flag, symbolizing the teams.
Glyasik preferred "Saudi Arabia". Mile started with "Russia", then tasted a portion of her husband and, after some thought, returned to the tricolor again. Zoo officials interpreted this as a draw.
I do not agree with the hippos - he believes that Russia will win. The cat was offered two bowls of food, and he chose the one marked with the Russian flag. Interestingly, Achilles already has experience in predictions - last year he guessed the results of three of the four games of the Confederations Cup.
Great Britain also promised a win for the wards of Stanislav Cherchesov, who, with the whole flock, began to eat flour worms under the flag of Russia.
Solidarity with them and raccoon Nafanya from Irkutsk. The employees of the zoo where he lives claim that the animal has been making predictions for several years sports matches and so far have never been wrong. On the eve of the Championship, he chose a bowl of food with the logo of Russia, which greatly encouraged the local fans. Interestingly, Nafanya himself is very athletic. In his enclosure, devices for pull-ups and jumps were installed, and the raccoon regularly exercises.Victory for the Russians was also promised by the otter Harry and the rabbit Fluff from Sochi.
Tapir Cleopatra from the Limpopo zoo in Nizhny Novgorod will predict the winner of the match Sweden - South Korea. Zoo press secretary Anna Belyakova noted that Cleopatra would express her opinion three days before the game, on June 15. The ceremony will take place in the standard way - the animal will have to choose one of two bowls of food. Meanwhile, the winner of the World Cup is already known to the tapir - according to Cleopatra, the Cup will go to the Argentines.
Goat Zabiyaka from the Samara Zoo gave the victory to the German team - many experts agree with her on this.
The era of animal oracles began in 2008, when the European Football Championship was held. The general excitement was caused by the octopus Paul. Before the match, two feeders with the flags of the opposing teams were placed in his aquarium. Of the 14 predictions, Paul was wrong only twice. But two years later, during the 2010 World Cup, the octopus gained experience and made 100% accurate predictions.
Now Paul is no longer alive, but his work is continued by four-legged animals in zoos around the world. Do not lag behind modern technologies- living at VDNKh intends to guess the results of all matches of the largest sports tournament.
