Passenger Monkey
The most famous case of hunting to extinction
is that of the Passenger monkey.
Classification
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Phylum | Chordata |
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| Class | Mammalia |
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| Order | Primates |
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| Family | Cercopithecidae |
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| Genus | Colobus |
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| Species | migratorius |
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Museum Data
Specimen Data
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| Number of Specimens |
2 |
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| Alternative Common Name |
Passenger monkey |
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Details
The Passenger monkey used to inhabit North America in what appeared to be in unlimited numbers. Hunting competitions were organized in which more than 30,000 dead monkeys were needed to claim a prize. Within a century, the multitudes of this monkey were reduced to minute populations. The sole survivor died in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo.