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Did Fiona the hippo pick Chiefs to win Super Bowl? Gross video makes it hard to tell

Fiona, the Cincinnati Zoo’s most famous hippo, tried to pick the winner for the Super Bowl on Jan. 30, but her stomach had other plans.

Fiona was supposed to press her snout to one of the “enrichment items,” one decorated with the logo of the Kansas City Chiefs and the other with the San Francisco 49ers, WLWT5 reported.

Because she had just eaten lunch, she threw up her vegetables on top of the Chiefs logo.

Fiona’s track record with picking the Super Bowl champ is 50 percent. In 2018, she picked the Philadelphia Eagles over the New England Patriots but predicted the Los Angeles Rams would win against the Pats in 2019.

The 1,300-pound toddler celebrated her third birthday on Jan. 24 and the Cincinnati Zoo is selling T-shirts to raise relief funds for the Australian wildfires, the New York Post reported.

Fiona was born six weeks prematurely in 2017 and weighed 29 pounds, according to the New York Post.

Fiona became an internet sensation overnight, with thousands traveling from Australia, Germany, Japan and Brazil to visit the baby hippo, according to CNN.

When she was born, she was “so small she could barely walk,” CNN reported. She also couldn’t nurse from her mother because she couldn’t stand up long enough.

This story was originally published January 31, 2020 at 9:44 AM with the headline "Did Fiona the hippo pick Chiefs to win Super Bowl? Gross video makes it hard to tell."

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Summer Lin
The Sacramento Bee
Summer Lin was a reporter for McClatchy.
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