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Associated Press

Move over, Paul the octopus. There’s a new big-hitter in the world of football fortune-tellers.
And this one is going for a win for Germany to open the European Championship.
Bubi, an African elephant who lives in a reserve in Thuringia in central Germany, was tasked on Thursday with predicting the victor of the Euro 2024 match between the host nation and Scotland in Munich on Friday.
Bubi had to kick a ball towards the flags of Germany and Scotland that were on either side of a makeshift goal. The ball rolled towards Germany’s.
Bubi, who is originally from Italy, then waved the flag of her adopted home and enjoyed a bucket of barley.

Her keepers discovered her enthusiasm for football by chance when a ball rolled into her enclosure. Bubi immediately kicked it back.
Paul the octopus, also known as the “Oracle of Oberhausen”, gained notoriety by successfully predicting the outcome of matches at the 2010 World Cup.


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Euro 2024: Germany to beat Scots in opener, says elephant Bubi – the new Paul the octopus

Elephant Bubi, an “elephant oracle”, kicks the ball towards the German flag, predicting a win for Germany over Scotland in the Euro 2024 opener. Photo: AP

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Football

As Paul was in 2010, the African elephant is tasked with picking a winner, in her case by kicking a ball towards a team’s flag


As Paul was in 2010, the African elephant is tasked with picking a winner, in her case by kicking a ball towards a team’s flag.


Euro 2024: Germany to beat Scots in opener, says elephant Bubi – the new Paul the octopus

.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;}As Paul was in 2010, the African elephant is tasked with picking a winner, in her case by kicking a ball towards a team’s flag

As Paul was in 2010, the African elephant is tasked with picking a winner, in her case by kicking a ball towards a team’s flag