Trivia Questions:
1. TRUE OR FALSE: Habitat loss is one of the most serious threats to rhinoceros populations.
2. Do rhinos really stomp out fires?
3. When and where was the Javan rhino “rediscovered”?

Trivia Answers:
1. TRUE: Rhinos’ natural habitat is taken away by the growing human population. Land is converted for use in agriculture or roads and forests are still logged (legally and illegally) for hardwood.
2. The legend seems to have been common in Malaysia and Burma. This type of rhinoceros even had a special name in Malay, ‘badak api’, where badak means rhinoceros and api means fire. The animal would come when a fire is lit in the forest and stamp it out. If there is or can be any truth in the legend, it would be hard to decide. The rhinoceros in South East Asia has become very rare and is hardly ever met nowadays, as it keeps to the deep forest and high mountains. Suffice it to say that there has been no sighting of this phenomenon in recent history.
3. The best known population of Javan rhinos can be found in Ujung Kulon National Park in Western Java. A second remaining pocket of Javan rhinos was discovered in Vietnam in 1988, in an area known as Cat Loc Forest Reserve.