By MIKE SCHNEIDER, The Associated Press
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Someone new is becoming a member of the ranks of health lovers who monitor the variety of steps they take every day with Fitbits and different health monitoring gadgets. Only Helen isn’t human: She’s a 30-year-old white rhino at Walt Disney World.
Helen went out onto the savanna on the Kilimanjaro Safaris attraction at Animal Kingdom on Monday sporting a health system all day.
The goal is to collect information on the variety of steps she takes every day, whether or not she is strolling, operating or napping, and which a part of the man-made savanna she favors essentially the most. The system, a couple of foot in diameter, has an accelerometer and a GPS tracker and it’s fitted round her ankle.
The information it produces will probably be shared with greater than two dozen different establishments collaborating in a big analysis mission learning one of the best methods to take care of rhinos at amenities, stated Scott Terrell, a veterinarian who’s director of Animal & Science Operations, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts.
“By doing this analysis and utilizing this know-how, we will actually focus in on the bodily health of the rhinos as a element of their well being and effectively being,” Terrell stated.
Helen, a rhino at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom, rolls round in a mud puddle sporting a health system on her proper entrance leg, Monday, May 16, 2022, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP
The tracker consists of a belt with a small pouch with electronics connected to it. Her caretakers had been making an attempt to get Helen accustomed to the system by having her put on it for a restricted period of time after which extending that point.
If Helen continues to look snug sporting the system, which will probably be taken off at night time, ultimately two-thirds of the 9 white rhinos at Animal Kingdom will probably be sporting the gadgets out on the savanna.
Around 27,000 rhinos stay within the wild, primarily at nationwide parks and reserves. Three species — black, Javan and Sumatran — are critically endangered as a consequence of poaching, based on the World Wildlife Fund.
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