Zoo animals 'predict' Spain will win
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With the Euro 2012 final due to early tomorrow (at 1.45am), Thais purchased over 160 million postcards to guess which team - Spain or Italy - will win. Zoo animals, meanwhile, were said to have favoured Spain.
Confronted with two footballs, one with a Spanish flag and the other with an Italian flag, Chiang Mai Zoo’s panda cub Lin Ping at first reached out and touched the Italian ball before shifting to grab the Spanish ball and play with it. Its mother Lin Hui, confronted with the same choice, went straight to play with the Spanish ball.
At Chon Buri’s Khao Khiew Zoo, the male macaw “JR” signalled that the Spanish team would win. The bird is said to have “picked” the winner of the World Cup 2010 before.
