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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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