Black rhino

**The Black rhino** or **African rhino** is an animal from the *Jungle Cruise*.

## History

### Background

The African rhino is a species of black rhinoceros (*Diceros bicornis*) inhabiting the African veldt along the Nile river in North Africa. Between roughly 1911 and 1936, a rhino chased the Lost Safari up a tree causing them to get stuck there. In 1938, the rhino chased the marooned crew of the Kwango Kate up a tree as-well. When the Jungle Navigation Company dumped Christmas decor over Adventureland as part of their, "Jingle Cruise", a fruit-cake was impaled on the rhino's smaller horn.

### Development history

A family of rhinos appeared in the original, nature oriented incarnation of the Jungle Cruise. Namely consisting of a mother rhino and two infants. After boats scared the babies, the mother rhino threatened to attack the boats. These rhino were replaced in 1977/1978 with the gorillas ransacking the base camp.

The rhino was designed by Marc Davis for a comedy-oriented refurbishment of the Jungle Cruise. In 2021, the American versions of the Jungle Cruise were refurbished to replace the safari with the passengers of the Kwango Kate.

## Appearances

### Adventure Trading Company

An illustration of the rhino was in the *Jungle Handbook for River Navigation*.

### Bengal Barbecue

A photograph of Charlie Allnut and Rose Sayer from The African Queen features the original trapped safari in the background.

### Jungle Cruise

The rhino is a staple of the African veldt, running humans up a tree.

#### Jingle Cruise

In this overlay, the tree was made out like a Christmas tree and the rhino's horn adorned with a star.

#### Jungle Cruise: Wildlife Expeditions

The Magic Kingdom's incarnation of the safari appears within this attraction.

#### Jungle River Cruise

The original Disneyland lost safari appears in the veldt of this jungle cruise.

### Kilimanjaro Safaris

Black rhinos appear within the Harambe Wildlife Reserve.

### Skipper Canteen

There is a wood carving of the rhino alongside a hyena within the architecture of the skipper canteen. The menus for this restaurant also contain an illustration of the Magic Kingdom's original Lost Safari.

### Trader Sam's

There is a drink in these bars called, "The Lost Safari" which is named for the expedition. The menu description for the beverage reads, "Best served with a rhino chaser, this drink always gets the point across in the end. Bottoms up!".

#### Trader Sam's Grog Grotto

A photo of the safari can be found in this bar.

## Trivia

* During the 2021 refurbishments, the rhino was made to prod at a series of crates rather than any safari members.
	+ Accomplished, "imagineer" Joe Rohde (who headed the Jungle Cruise inspired attractions *Kilimanjaro Safaris* and *Na'vi River Journey*) made a joke on *Twitter* about the rhino being upset at the crates due to imagineering teams at the time over-using labelled crates for story-telling and easter-eggs. Incidentally, this refurbishment saw a large amount of crates and obscured post-cards integrated into the attraction for this purpose.

## Gallery

In the menu of the Skipper CanteenIn the Magic Kingdom DLC of Minecraft Bedrock EditionProdding at crates
## References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU4LZcpl0pY
2. ↑ https://touringplans.com/blog/s6\_skippercanteen/