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“章鱼妹”预测澳大利亚大选

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“章鱼妹”预测澳大利亚大选
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世界杯期间“章鱼保罗”八猜八中的骄人成绩使得世界各地涌现了不少章鱼的粉丝，各国都涌现了用章鱼来预测重大事件的热潮。近日，澳大利亚女总理刚刚宣布要参加8月的大选，便有媒体推出了名为“卡珊德拉”的神奇“章鱼妹”来预测大选结果，称杰拉德将获胜。当地媒体报道说，“章鱼妹”很看好新近上台的工党美女领袖杰拉德，在预测时用她长长的手臂抱住了杰拉德的照片。吉拉德上月取代陆克文出任工党领袖和总理。她上台后致力修正陆克文的不受欢迎政策，令工党支持率回升。[文章版权禁止转载:考试与评价 http://www.trgroup.com.cn/te/ /jVlurN{.vK,u#}FroG]

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An Australian newspaper has taken a leaf out of the football World Cup play book, unveiling its own "psychic" octopus that it says has predicted Prime Minister Julia Gillard will win next month's poll.

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The Sydney Morning Herald showed off "Cassandra" just as Ms Gillard told the Australian people that they would go to national elections on August 21.

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The paper hopes Cassandra will rival the predictive powers of "Paul", a German octopus that called a string of results including the World Cup winner.

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"Cassandra's preference for Julia Gillard was clear," the newspaper said. "Despite being a solitary animal, she wrapped her long arms around the Prime Minister," it said next to a photo of the octopus wound around a picture of Gillard.

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But the octopus's reaction to conservative Opposition leader Tony Abbott's photo was less enthusiastic - she turned a "defensive black colour", the paper said.

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Marine science expert Professor Rob Harcourt however warned that as octopuses have "episodic personalities", Cassandra could change her eight-tentacled vote at any time.

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"On any given day, an octopus may be bold in all situations and then shy and timid the next day," he told the paper.

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Melbourne's Herald Sun beat the SMH by a week with the concept, however, taking the election question to the Melbourne Aquarium to let the giant octopuses there decide.

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