At Alushtniskom aquarium appeared «brother» the legendary Paul - octopus Pavlik

In Alushta Aquarium brought an octopus. About this Resort and Information Centre of the ARC said owner Victor Zhilenko aquarium.

According to him, to date in private aquariums octopuses do not. "Not only in the Crimea and Ukraine, and the whole post-Soviet space is not an octopus. The problem lies in the complexity of transport: if during the trip to hit the box or just put her messy, octopus immediately produces inks and kills himself - told V. Zhilenko. - We have three times tried to bring us an octopus, but could not. At this time everything went well. "

He said that Pavlik octopus named in honor of legendary football forecaster - Octopus Paul. "Our Pavlik of the same breed as Paul, delivered from the same region - from the Mediterranean Sea. Perhaps, in theory, it is a close relative of Paul "- added the owner of an aquarium.

According to V. Zhilenko, there are plans to test the ability of the octopus Pavlik guess the results of football matches. So, as soon as the aquarium staff want to spend a "scientific experiment": prepare two feeders and flags of the countries for which will play a football team. "This experiment was timed to the nearest football match and see if someone will open trough our Pavlik and how much will be true to its forecast", - said V. Zhilenko.

Aquarium owner added that the breeders who were trying to breed an octopus, individuals do not live more than 2-3 months. "In theory, octopuses can live for several years, we will make every effort to ensure that our Pavlik spent a long time. Now he feels fine, he's pretty big already comrade, very sociable, in general - all right - summed B. Zhilenko.

Recall octopus Paul, in Germany, also known as "Octopus-oracle", became popular worldwide for its ability to guess the results of matches involving the German national football team. Lived in the Aquarium Center of Marine Life in Oberhausen (Germany). To obtain predictions of the aquarium, where live octopus, dipped two feeders: the flag of Germany and its opponents. It was believed that he will win, with a trough whose flag was opened by Paul first.

Paul tried to buy anonymous tycoons, he received death threats from some German fans, who accused the predictor of betrayal, and the Spaniards, who won the world championship, promised to ensure the safety of mollusk. Subsequently, the octopus-oracle received Spanish citizenship and became an honorary resident of the city Karbalino.

Octopus died in October 2010.

SUMMARY: Alushta Aquarium was established in 2003. The aquarium has more than 200 species of fish and several species of crocodiles, crabs and turtles. So, in an aquarium inhabited by sharks cat (bamboo), Nile crocodiles, arovany (fish-dragons), groupers leopard, Asian zmeegolovy, lip-cleaners (fish-doctor), crocodile caiman, marble eels, piranhas, Asian zmeegolovy, turtles, etc.