Rhinoceroses

There are 5 species of Rhinoceros, each living in a different area:

• The White Rhinoceros - These are normally found in one of five countries, all in Africa, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Uganda.

• The Black Rhinoceros - These animals are one the brink of extinction, although they could once be found across the Savannah in western Africa.

• The Indian Rhinoceros - This creature once roamed areas of Pakistan, Burma and Bangladesh and may have even been seen in China. Now however, due to declining numbers, they can only be found in small populations in north-east India and areas of Nepal.

• The Javan Rhinoceros - This is the rarest of all mammals, not just in the Rhino families, but right across the animal kingdom. There are thought to be just 30 or 40 animals left in the wild and these are confined to very small areas. They could once be found right across Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and into Thailand and Malaysia. Now however they are fond in two small areas. A population of about 14 animals lives in an area of lowland forest in the Cat Tien National Park in Vietnam, and about 30 animals in the Ujung Kulon National Park on the western tip of the island of Java.

The Sumatran Rhinoceros - This Rhino is also endangered and when it once roamed large areas of Malaysia, but now are confined to small areas in Burma, Bangladesh and easterType your answer here...

Not exactly. Sizes & weights of the rhinos would pose such a dangerous adversary for any carnivore since none of the beasts in their habitat is neither large nor strong enough to overpower them, not to mention the tough skin layer & rigid muscle tissue supporting such huge body structure. And though many have labelled the most basic function of their horns as a means for protection, the fact that many de-horned rhinos roam their terrains without being attacked nor preyed upon by any surrounding animals, carnivorous nor otherwise, clearly indicates that rhinos neither need nor depend on the horn for protection against any predators, and any rare isolated incidents of such an occurrence would be no more than a strange & unusual exception more likely resulting from extreme conditions in no way typical of natural wildlife.

Nevertheless, if rhinos have a need for protectionagainst a deadly predator, it would only need it against human ( or rather 'inhumane') poachers who kill them for their hornswhich they sell more often than not relying on consumers' false convictions of certain medicinal products & ornamental objects having exotic or exceptional uses when extracted from or carved out of rhino horns, none of which has ever been scientifically confirmed as containing such inherently beneficial qualities relative of any human needs in any field by any modern officially-certified, scholarly-acknowledged, integritously-validated Authority outside the realms of traditional folklore & superstitious beliefs. This reality, by logical deduction, would make human poachers as well as consumers of rhino horn materials thus threatening their continuous survival to this day the single one and only actual deadly predator that rhinos have ever had to suffer or fear since the rise of human civilization till the present time.

In conclusion, it would effectively prevent their extinction if all products originating from their helpless beautiful bodies are not purchased nor used and are all together substituted by any other products or goods that are harmlessly produced or acquired while educating the world on the necessity to stop such practices which would inevitably disrupt the natural balance of life on Earth, the far reaching ramifications of which the limits are dangerously uncertain against the interest of all form of life since all are bound to be eventually effected from such major disruption at one point or an other. On a last note: Let us humans NOT be the animals who prey on rhinos since the rest of the Animal Kingdom unanimously saw fit to allow them to live in peace un-preyed upon! Answered by: Bandar Al-Qahtani ( A.K.A. Jocktanian Wolf)