🦭 Reggae
Atlantic harbor seal (Phoca vitulina concolor) · The 42,000-gallon outdoor harbor seal exhibit on the front plaza of the New England Aquarium, Boston, Massachusetts
Lives in Lagoon
Reggae is a 33-year-old male Atlantic harbor seal at the New England Aquarium. In February 2026 the aquarium's social team filmed him during a routine enrichment session with a yellow rubber duck, and the Instagram reel that followed hit close to 500,000 views and roughly 100,000 engagements in under a month — the aquarium's second-best-performing post at the time. The ducks are part of a cognitive training game the trainers call 'find it!', where Reggae searches his exhibit and learns to tell one object from another. Keepers describe him as the laid-back one who prefers slow enrichment to the high-energy stuff.
What they do
Floats belly-down at the surface, wraps both front flippers around a yellow rubber duck and hugs it in, then pats it twice on the head before tucking it under one flipper..
A thirty-three-year-old gentleman who does everything slowly and will not put the duck down.
Lore
- ★He is 33 years old and lives in a 42,000-gallon outdoor pool on the aquarium's front plaza.
- ★The rubber ducks are training equipment for a memory game the staff call 'find it!'.
- ★His reel reached nearly 500,000 views and about 100,000 engagements in under a month.
- ★Trainers describe him as preferring calm enrichment over porpoising and other high-energy behaviours.
Helping the real one
💛 Support Reggae via New England AquariumFetched and confirmed as the aquarium's own support page. The New England Aquarium is a nonprofit research and conservation organisation; gifts fund animal care, conservation research and education. This opens their own official page. Money never touches this site.
Where this comes from
- NBC10 Boston Seal at Boston aquarium goes viral for interactions with his rubber duck ↗
- Boston.com Meet the New England Aquarium's viral seal and his rubber duckie pal ↗
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