Rhino

"…you rhinos, you have really tiny brains."

―Sid conversing with Carl and Frank.

Rhino
Physical Attributes Kingdom Mammalia Species Megacerops and Embolotherium Height 8 ft' (reality) 6 ft' (movie) Weight 15,000 lbs. Eye Color Varying Skin Color Usually gray Diet Herbivore

Rhinos were large mammals that lived during the ice ages.

Traits

Thickly-skinned with tough, leathery hides, rhinos had small ears and eyes, short necks, thick bodies, short tails and short, stout legs with flat, three-toed feet. Above all, however, the rhinos had large, two-pointed horns, with some individuals sporting a thin, two-pointed horn and others one large, flat horn with two dull ends. Rhinos usually moved in herds and, when prompted to, were able to run quickly, charging down their path.

History

Rhinos, like many other animals of the ice ages, were among those that migrated with the other herds of animals south for the winters, leaving behind the frozen forests and plains that they had inhabited before.

Few, if any rhinos, resided in the Ice Valley, though one young male was among the younglings that resided in the valley, making use of the naturally-formed ice waterpark.

This young male had been among those mammals that had encountered a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a species of animal long since thought extinct.

In time, the rhinos were among those animals that existed during the days of the continental drift and made the move out of the land bridge they once lived in, as it was being threatened by the drifting landmasses, making it to a new island home by way of an ocean bound iceberg that they boarded.

One young male is been invited to Manfred and Ellie's anniversary.

Known rhinos

• Carl
• Carl's Grandmother
• Frank

Appearences

• Ice Age (First appearance)
  • Ice Age (video game)
• Ice Age: The Meltdown
  • Ice Age: The Meltdown (video game)
• Ice Age: The Great Escape
• Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
  • Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (video game)
• Ice Age Village
• Ice Age Adventures
• Ice Age: Continental Drift
• Ice Age: Collision Course

Behind the Scenes

Considering the shape of nasal horns. Rhinos shown in the movies seems to belong to the two different species called Megacerops (previously known as Brontotherium and/or Traenetorbudum, respectively thin-horned Frank) and Embolotherium (respectively thicker-horned Carl). Two species that were closely related to each other and were part of a group of mammals called brontotheres.

Though referred to as "rhinos" in the Ice Age series, they were more related to horses rather than rhinos, in fact the trademark horn of brontotheres, unlike those of rhinos, was made of solid bone, and was more likely to have been used for display than combat.

True brontotheres were almost the size of an African elephant, sporting four toes on their front feet and three in the back. The brontotheres shown in the series are more the size of modern rhinos and have three toes on all four feet.

Both Megacerops and Embolotherium, among a large part of the animal species featured in the movies, aren't true creatures of the ice age, living about 30-40 millions years ago, during the period Eocene. Plus, the second one lived in Asia, not in North America.

Gallery

Thick-horned "Carl". Seems to modeled after Embolotherium.

Thin-horned "Frank". Seems to modeled after Megacerops.

Rhino calf shown in the Ice Age: The Meltdown (Note: If you look carefully at the calf's horn, you can tell that this is an Embolotherium calf)

Rhino in Ice Age: The Meltdown (video game)