Comments about ‘Hogle Zoo orangutans pick Saints to win Super Bowl’

Earlier this week, Pres. Obama showed support for the Saints too. His track record for support lately shows that he has not been successful. Therefore, the Colts will win easily.

I'm sorry, but I don't see the newsworthiness of this article. My dog claims the Colts will win. Why don't you guys stop by and write something about that. Sheeeesh. C'mon. Who's your news editor?

Between the simian & the Madden game predicting the Saints win, Why Watch?

Maybe someday scientists will discover a way to communicate with apes. Then we can ask the orangutans, "Why did you play with the black and gold helmet first?" And I'm sure they will answer, "We understand that humans engage in a sort of organized play behavior that allows them an outlet for their primitive warrior instincts, and one of these games is called football, and we further understand that those who do not directly participate enjoy vicariously experiencing the game's cathartic effect by observing, and that these painted objects here bear the colors and logos which represent two particular teams that will compete in this game, and that our choice of which object to play with first would be construed to be a prediction of the winner. That is why we played with the black and yellow object."

Yes, I'm sure that's what they would communicate to us.

Also, those look like footballs in the photos, not helmets.

Those poor orangutans are sure going to feel sheepish come Monday morning when they are wrong. Boy will they have egg on their face(s)

If you will go back and read the caption under the photo you will discover that those are the "footballs". Just sayin'.

Geraldine

Congrats to these Orangutans on their correct pick. The gorilla at the Fort Worth Zoo made the same right pick.