Paul was an octopus at Sea Life Centre Oberhausen whose food-box choices during football tournaments were treated as predictions, making him a global media figure.

Sea Life Centre Oberhausen, Germany

Story

Paul chose food boxes marked with national flags, and media treated the choices as football predictions.

The archive records the media phenomenon without treating the prediction story as supernatural evidence.

Paul is archived because animal fame can reveal how humans project meaning onto animal behaviour.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Paul the Octopus
• BBC: Paul the octopus dies
• Wikimedia Commons: Paul the Octopus