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Believed to have gone extinct in mainland Asia, a small population of the Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticusare) was discovered in 1988 in the Cat Tien region of Vietnam. Many environmental conservationists and organizations supported by the Vietnamese government leaped on the chance to save the species. However by 2007, only 8 were remaining as a result...
Doing my translation homework, I looked up the Vietnamese word, “buc,” and found it had three meanings: picture, face, or sultry. That’s not confusing. While face and picture could sort of be related, sultry was definitely the odd man out. What’s worse, I tried substituting each of these words into the sentence, but none of them made sense. Which means that...