An octopus that predicted all three of Japan's group Football World Cup matches has been killed and turned into somebody's lunch.
'Rabio' became a household name in the Asian country, after it predicted the winners of Japan’s matches during an experiment in a paddling pool before its nation’s tournament opener against Columbia on June 20 (NZ time).
Despite the mollusc gaining some national attention, fisherman Kimio Abe, sent it to the market before Japan’s third match against Poland.
The giant Pacific octopus had successfully predicted Japan would lose that match, but was unfortunately not around to see his prediction come true.
"I'm glad all the forecasts turned out correct and Japan moved on to the knockout stage," Abe told the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.
Abe got another octopus, named Rabio Jr, to predict Japan's Round- of- 16 tie against Belgium. Junior picked Japan to win, but they ended up losing on the last kick of the game.
Rabio is not the first oracle octopus to predict World Cup matches.
German invertebrate Paul had successfully predicted eight out of eight 2010 World Cup matches.
Newshub.