SALT LAKE CITY—An ape at the Salt Lake City zoo has predicted the Carolina Panthers will win the Super Bowl.
Zoo spokeswoman Erica Hansen says a 1-year-old orangutan named Tuah chewed up a cardboard Panthers sign and later kissed a papier-mache Panthers helmet. Hansen says he never touched the Denver Broncos sign or helmet.
Hansen says Tuah’s older sister gave Broncos fans hope when she entered the enclosure later and put the Broncos helmet on her head.
Acara, a Bornean Orangutan, and the older sister to Tuah, gives Denver Bronco fans hope as she makes her choice on which team would win Sunday's Super Bowl by picking the helmet representing the Denver Broncos, at the Salt Lake City zoo, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016. After biting off the face guard, she put the remnants of the Denver helmet on. But it was "Tuah" who picked the Panthers helmet, who had the official duty to follow in his father's footsteps and pick the winner of Sunday's football game. His late father Eli picked seven straigher winners in a row before he died in 2015. Scott Sommerdorf /The Salt Lake Tribune via AP
