Paul the World Cup octopus dies

Paul the Octopus was a common octupus rom England, who lived in a tank at a Sea Life Center in Germany.Paul became internationally famous for correctly predicting the winner of each of Germany's seven matches at the 2010 Wordl Cup, as well as the final.

Now, Paul has died. He was two-and-half years old, and I think he was a real phenomeon. He enthused people across every continent.
The first time I saw him on the German TV, and only two days later I saw news in the Internet (in spanish and english). I was surprised that everyone knows about him. And at the school everybody know him too, and talk about what he predict for a match. After a few days, ther were a lot of groups in Facebook, he was on every TV programm or news... He really becomes famous very fast! In wikipedia are definitons about him in more than 40 languages!!!
There was a funny detaill too, that when Paul predicted the win from Germany vs. Argentina, there in a cook-show, cooks a recipe with an octopus! They were angry with Paul...


I think the people were so fascinated because he could preview nearly every match correctly. Paul begun his career before the FIFA, but nearly nobody knows. In 2008 he predict the UEFA Europe, and only fail two matches from the six who playes Germany.
But in 2010 he preview ALL matches from Germany good!


The question is: how could he make that?
At the beggining I thought that this was only conscidence, that he was very lucky to choose the recipient with the flag, but then I view that he was always alright. Can this only be luck? But if the answer is no, how managed he it?

An octopus is intelligent as a two-year-old child, he can plan and anticipate play, act and play. But even so, no two-year-old child can preview all the matches right: how did Paul do this?
Every newspaper around the world asked this same thing: The Washington Post Paul assumed a clairvoyant abilities, "Le Monde" spoke of virtually unbeatable predictions and The Japanese AFP Paul assumed a possible unreliability before the England game.


After the World Cup and during his long life (for a octopus the lifetime is about 1 year), he had changed a lot of things, and because him there desenvoloup a lot of funny historys:

- An municipality in Spain collected 30,000 euros to buy Paul. This should Paul be presented as an attraction of the local octopus festival. The same village appointed Paul on 13 July 2010 an honorary citizen of the city.

- Industry Minister Miguel Sebastián and Environment Minister Elena Espinosa suggested to bring him to Spain, "so that the Germans him not eat."

- In China media reports of Paul have created a culinary wave. The consumption of cephalopods, squid, such as octopus in Asia had grown rapidly. They also madea film, who comes in cinemas this year called: Kill octopus Paul.

-The community of Marina di Campo Elba has decided in October 2010, to name a street "Via Paul Polpo (octopus Paul Street).



And now, since the 3th November there are Paul II! We will see if he can predict like Paul... :)


..................................................Paul II.........................................