Little Red and Big Red

Little Red and Big Red are characters who appeared in the Disney's Animal Kingdom attraction Kilimanjaro Safaris.
==Background==
Little Red and Big Red are two individual elephants who lived in the Harambe Wildlife Reserve. Big Red serves as a mother elephant with Little Red being her offspring. These animals became famous for tourists who went on a safari to see elephants, including Big Red and Little Red. At some unknown date, Big Red died while being hunted down by a group of poachers while Little Red was saved, thanks to efforts from wildlife reserve warden Wilson Matua and the jeep, the SIMBA-1.
===Development History===
Little Red and Big Red were part of the original Kilimanjaro Safari's darker storyline. Guests entered the attraction and would encounter Big Red's motionless body in a plan to save Little Red from a group of poachers as a result of how poaching harms wildlife and many of the species living in the African savanna, especially elephants. However, over the years, the storyline was toned down to remove the elephant props to tone down the violence.
Despite the removal of the models for Big Red and Little Red, the only references to these elephants are only alluded in the posters nowadays in the queue area of the attraction.
==Appearances==
===Kilimanjaro Safaris===
Located in the queue of the attraction depicts a poster showing an adult elephant and her offspring representing Big Red and Little Red respectively. Outside of the warden's cabin is a jeep with a license plate reading, "L1L R3D".
==Trivia==
*Little Red is similar to Ellie from the Jungle Cruise attraction who appeared at the end of the attraction. Coincidentally, both are audio-animatronic elephants who appeared at the end of the attraction.
**In the 2021 refurbishment of Jungle Cruise in Magic Kingdom, skippers would occasionally identify the elephant seen at the end of the attraction as "Little Red" who was repurposed for the attraction, though the elephant used is the same model as Ellie. However, it is unclear if this elephant was meant to be Little Red.
Category:Theme park characters
Category:Females
Category:African characters
Category:Disney's Animal Kingdom
Category:Elephants
Category:Disney characters