How do you track the fitness of a rhino at Disney’s Animal Kingdom? Very carefully

Meet Helen, your new fitness inspiration.

The 30-year-old white rhino at Disney’s Animal Kingdom park in Lake Buena Vista has joined the bandwagon of fitness lovers and is sporting her own custom-made fitness tracker.

The black band that’s wrapped around Helen’s ankle looks like the Fitbit and Apple Watches people wear. It works like one too “but on a much larger scale!” Walt Disney World Resort wrote in a Monday blog post. The fit rhino initiative is part of a collaborative research project involving rhinos from accredited zoos and wildlife centers across the U.S.

“So we’re specifically focusing on physical fitness of the rhinos and looking at things like their heart rate, body fat percentage and then their behavior and activity out in their exhibit,” said Andrew, a research programs specialist for Disney’s Animals, Science and Environment department in a video Disney posted on Youtube.

The rhino-size activity tracker has an accelerometer, which will let researchers get a variety of data on Helen’s movement, no matter if she’s walking, laying down or rolling in her mud bath (it’s good for her complexion — no, really, it helps protect her skin from the sun).

The tracker will also gather data on how far she walks, her speed (both when she walks and runs), and give additional insight to her sleeping and nap schedules, according to the blog post.

Researchers will also be able to use the tracker’s GPS to determine what Helen’s favorite areas of the savanna are. The tracker will be taken off at night. (Hey, a lady needs time to R&R.)

“By doing this research and using this technology, we can really focus in on the physical fitness of the rhinos as a component of their health and well-being,” said Scott Terrell, the director of Animal & Science Operations at Walt Disney Parks & Resorts, in an emailed statement to the Miami Herald Tuesday. “Once complete, this research will be compiled and shared with animal care professionals at 74 AZA-accredited facilities, helping ensure rhinos receive the best care for many generations to come.”

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White rhinos (which are actually gray in color) are the second-largest land mammals, just behind elephants and can weigh between 4,000 and 6,000 pounds, according to the International Rhino Foundation. Helen weighs about 3,000 pounds. Rhinos are grazers, which means they eat grass, and usually spend about half the day eating. At Animal Kingdom, the rhinos have a customized diet.

The species were considered a conservation success story because they were brought back from near extinction. However, white rhinos are once again seeing a decline due to a surge in poaching for their horns and are “near threatened,” according to the International Rhino Foundation.

The fitness tracker is part of a research project Disney is collaborating on with other accredited zoos and wildlife centers focusing on four priority areas that were identified by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums’ (AZA) Rhinoceros Research Council in 2019. Physical fitness and its role in the overall health of rhinos is one of the components.

“Eventually, we’re hoping that most of the facilities — if not all — in North America that have African rhinos will participate,” said Andrew, the research specialist. “The data that we’re hoping to collect across a range of facilities will hopefully tell us how rhinos behave differently across different types of habitats from large to small and everywhere in between.”

And Helen’s already showing off her new bling in the Orlando savanna. The Associated Press took a pic of Helen wearing the tracker, which is about a foot in diameter, while grazing in the savanna Monday at Animal Kingdom’s Kilimanjaro Safaris attraction in Florida. Helen is the first rhino at Disney’s Animal Kingdom to wear the fitness tracker. If all goes well, as many as six rhinos in the park could wear the tracker in the future, Disney said.

But will the tracker come in pink?