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Confidence votes 13. The proboscis monkey, is endangered because land shortage due to people building plantations and houses. Before 2006, people were hunting them. and now there is only about 3,000 left in the island Borneo and Sarawak.he proboscis monkey is an endangered species due to habitat loss and hunting. To see a picture of the proboscis monkey, see the related link.
1 The diet of the proboscis monkey consists mainly of leaves, shoots, seeds and unripe fruit. 2  It is known that proboscis monkeys are not too fond of fleshy fruits and the complex nature of the digestive system of the proboscis monkey means that they are unable to digest ripe fruit. The proboscis monkey has a large protruding belly that is thought to stick out so much due to the proboscis monkeys diet and complex digestion system, which along with the long nose of the males, gives the proboscis monkey very distinctive yet strange characteristics.