While Paul the Octopus might have predicted the winner of the World Cup, Dirty Harry, the psychic crocodile, is placing his bets on Julia Gillard for the Australian election.
This saltwater crocodile, who previously forecasted Spain’s World Cup victory but was overshadowed by Germany’s Paul, demonstrated his choice within his enclosure located in the northern city of Darwin.
He grabbed a chicken carcass that was hung beneath a representation of Ms. Gillard, while Tony Abbott’s chicken remained untouched.
With both major parties holding onto 50 percent of the vote, the Australian election is proving to be a tight race, suggesting the possibility of a hung parliament when voters go to the polls on Saturday.
In one of the final opinion surveys leading up to election day, both Julia Gillard, the 
Labour prime minister, and Tony Abbott, the head of the Liberal-National Coalition, were shown to have equal support at 50 percent each.
These statistics, gathered by Newspoll and reported in the Australian newspaper, reflect Australia’s intricate preferential voting system, in which votes cast for unsuccessful Greens Party candidates are transferred to Labour.
