爱思英语编者按：德国当地时间7月6日中午11时(北京时间6日17时)，备受关注的奥博豪森水族馆的章鱼出动，这条名叫保罗的章鱼对世界杯半决赛德国与西班牙进行了预测，最终他选择了西班牙——这意味着，保罗认为欧洲冠军西班牙将在半决赛击败势头强劲的德国队进入决赛。
世界杯如火如荼之际，谁也不会想到世界上有这么多的人会关心一条章鱼，会对他的预测这么在意。从世界杯开打至今，生活在德国奥博豪森水族馆的保罗对德国队的全部比赛进行了预测，至今猜中概率是100%，并且猜中德国队在小组赛输给塞尔维亚的比赛。
Two year-old octopus Paul, the so-called "octopus oracle" predicts Spain"s victory in their 2010 World Cup semi-final match against Germany by choosing a mussel, from a glass box decorated with the Spanish national flag instead of a glass box with the German flag, at the Sea Life Aquarium in the western German city of Oberhausen. Paul has correctly picked the winner of Germany"s five World Cup results so far.
The England-raised Paul has been perfect in his predictions on the German team at the World Cup, choosing correctly Germany wins over Australia, Ghana, England and Argentina as well as Serbia"s victory over Germany.
In fact, Paul has been making predictions since Euro2008 and his only mistake was selecting Germany to beat Spain in that final, which the Spaniards won 1-0.
The hoopla around Paul has sparked a number of other psychic animals choosing winners at the World Cup.
And world media has been giving Paul and the others attention as well. German all-news channel n-tv even carried Paul"s Germany-Spain prediction live, including live commentary by two reporters.
The handlers of the psychic octopus at Aquarium Sea Life in Oberhausen baited glass cubes with mussels marked with both Germany and Spain. The mussel Paul first chooses is viewed by the handlers as its prediction for the up-coming game.
Paul initially went to the Spain-marked container before moving around the tank and then hovering over the German box. But he quickly headed back to the "Spaniards" and went for the mussel - making his pick. 更多信息请访问：http://www.24en.com/
Germany meet Spain in Durban on Wednesday evening for a berth in final.
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