FORT WORTH, Texas — On the Super Bowl field, Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny had the world dancing with his halftime show. Off the field, an unofficial Bad Bunny mascot weighed in on the big game from the Fort Worth Zoo and correctly predicted the winner.
A Puerto Rican crested toad called Benito, which is Bad Bunny’s real name, accurately predicted the Seattle Seahawks’ Sunday win with a social media video from the Fort Worth Zoo. The video shows Benito on a small football field, hopping through the Seahawks’ end zone.
This is the second correct Super Bowl pick from the zoo in 11 years.
According to the Fort Worth Zoo, Benito and his species have a connection with Bad Bunny that goes beyond just being Puerto Rican. The singer featured the endangered toad in “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS,” a short film made to accompany his 2025 album of the same name.
Bad Bunny used an animated version of the toad, called Sapo Concho in Puerto Rico, “to represent the plight of some of the country’s natural and cultural symbols,” the zoo wrote in the video’s caption.
The zoo has worked on Sapo Concho conservation efforts for over four decades, according to a January 2025 press release, and has released more than 100,000 tadpoles into their natural habitat to become “the longest continuous reintroduction program for any amphibian species in the world.”