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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.
Full Definition of PROBOSCIS. 1. a: the trunk of an elephant; also: any long flexible snout b: the human nose especially when prominent. 2. : any of various elongated or extensible tubular processes (as the sucking organ of a butterfly) of the oral region of an invertebrate.See proboscis defined for English-language learners. any of various elongated or extensible tubular organs or processes especially of the oral region of an invertebrate: as a: a sucking organ of insects (as houseflies or mosquitoes) that is often also adapted for piercing b: one of the complex protrusible holdfasts on the scolex of certain tapeworms.