Ape picks seventh straight Super Bowl winner with Seahawks
Feb 3, 2014, 10:19 AM | Updated: 11:29 am
This image provided by the Hogle Zoo shows Eli the ape with a paper mache Seattle Seahawks helmet he chose over a Denver Broncos helmet, predicting the winner of this Sunday's Super Bowl at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. Eli has correctly picked the Super Bowl winner for seven straight years. (AP Photo/Hogle Zoo)
(AP Photo/Hogle Zoo)
An ape at a Utah zoo is now 7-for-7 after correctly picking the winner of Super Bowl XLVII.
Last week, Eli, an ape at Hogle Zoo in Utah slapped down a papier-mache Seahawks helmet indicating them as his choice for winner. After the Seattle Seahawks’ 43-8 defeat of the Denver Broncos, Eli is now running at 100 percent for his Super Bowl predictions.
KIRO Radio’s Morning News called up the zoo Monday to see how Eli is feeling after nailing the outcome yet again.
“Is Eli aware of what he’s pulled off here?” asked Morning News host Dave Ross.
“I think he will be,” says the zoo’s Erica Hansen. “His keepers are going to make him a Seattle Seahawks cake, which will consist of probably fruit with peanut butter frosting, so that’s always a special treat in the ape world.”
The zoo planned to pull out a TV for Eli so he could watch the game. But of course the competition was a little less level than most had anticipated.
“Did he get bored when it was such a blowout?” Morning News Anchor Ursula Reutin asked.
“I think everybody did,” said Hansen. “And you know what apes start doing when they get bored, so we don’t want to talk about that on the radio.”
While not the most avid game watcher, Eli clearly proved his prognosticating prowess and Hansen said people are now looking for more predictions from Eli.
“Now they want us to put lottery numbers in front of him or the March Madness bracket,” said Hansen. “So we’ll see. Maybe we’ve got some other fun things to do with Eli.”
