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Fiona the Hippo Predicts an Eagles Win at the Super Bowl

The Super Bowl will air live on NBC on Sunday, Feb. 4

Fiona is going with her feathered friends in the Super Bowl.

The Cincinnati Zoo's celebrity hippopotamus has picked the Philadelphia Eagles over a New England Patriots' win in Sunday's big game.

The zoo posted a video Thursday showing the one-year-old hippo nosing around a cardboard box painted with a Patriots logo.

But she then made a late game adjustment and started chomping on a pile lettuce perched on top of a green box with the Eagles logo.

It's been a big couple of weeks for Fiona. She just celebrated her first birthday a week ago.

The prematurely born hippo has grown from a dangerously low 29 pounds (13 kilograms) to nearly 700 pounds (318 kilograms) now.

Fiona isn't the only famous zoo animal making Super Bowl predictions. April the Giraffe, who became a viral internet sensation last spring during the labor and birth of her calf, Tajiri, chose the Patriots.

The Super Bowl will air live on NBC on Sunday, Feb. 4. Kickoff is schedule for 6:30 p.m. ET.

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