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Princess the Prognosticating Camel

Animal Radio

If you recall, we recently had Princess the Prognosticating Camel as a guest on Animal Radio®. Princess, the Associated Humane Societies/Popcorn Park Zoo’s camel, made national headlines last year with her uncanny ability to predict the winners of Sunday National Football League season and post-season games is at it again this year.

This is Princess’s third season of picking the winners. And anyone who’s followed this camel’s choices knows she’s got it all over the bookmakers. In fact, until recently she was 10 and 0, but unfortunately recently had her first loss.

To make her choices, John Bergmann, Princess’s caregiver, writes on his hands the names of two teams playing that weekend. Princess, whose favorite snack at game time or anytime is graham crackers, makes her game choice by eating the sweet treat from the hand that has the name of her favorite team written on it.

Bergmann then announces Princess’s pick on the Associated Humane Societies/Popcorn Park Zoo website, www.ahscares.org, a few days before the game and also keeps a running tally of her wins and losses.

When Princess is not working her football magic, she is enjoying zoo visitors, along with the hundreds of other animals who call Popcorn Park Zoo “home.” Popcorn Park Zoo was established in 1977 for the sole purpose of providing a refuge for wildlife, exotic and domestic animals that are sick, elderly, abandoned, abused, or injured. The federally licensed zoo houses more than 200 of these animals and birds in spacious surroundings on seven acres in the heart of the scenic Pine Barrens.