NT News’ psychic crocodile calls election

Dr Mumbo calls for an amnesty on all psychic animal stunts in the run up to Saturday’s Federal poll.

In the spirit of Paul the octopus, who became famous during the 2010 World Cup for consistently picking the winning team ahead of matches,  The NT News yesterday asked Burt, a 5.1 metre monster croc to pick between Bill Shorten and Malcolm Turnbull.

As the newspaper noted with a front page headlined “Chew party preferred” and a page headline of “Psychcroc chewses Turnbull”, Burt initially latched on to Labor’s Bill Shorten, but let go after deciding his didn’t like the taste of the ALP leader, instead devouring Malcolm Turnbull. 

Dr Mumbo notes that reading such psychic animals messages can be somewhat of a challenge.