A Raisin in the Sun (Criticism):

RED COLOBUS MONKEY[pic]
BY: MELODY SAYRE

      Red Colobus monkeys are Old World monkeys found in Africa. The monkeys are highly social and live in groups of about thirty to fifty. If you hear loud calls from the adult males it often means the group is about to move from tree to tree to eat. Red Colobus Monkey eats young leaves, flowers, leaf shoots, unripe fruit and seeds. The most common kinds of trees that Red Colobus feed on are black plum. But unlike other monkeys, Red colobus do not eat ripe fruit.   The Red Colobus also eats charcoal and this may help their digestive system to cope with the poisons the leaves contain. The Red Colobus monkey has no thumb. This west-African red-and-black monkey was restricted to parts of Ghana and Ivory Coast. The species had a limited distribution between two rivers in both countries and it could only survive in high-canopy rainforest. The Miss Waldron's Red Colobus monkey was first described by scientists in 1936. The extinction of this monkey was not a surprise to wildlife experts. The last sighting of a Miss Waldron's Red Colobus monkey was in 1978 in the rainforest of Ghana. It was listed as endangered in 1988. In 2000, the Miss Waldron's Red Colobus monkey has been declared extinct. The New York Times, CNN, and others announced its end at Sep. 12. The extinction Miss Waldron's Red Colobus monkey is the first documented extinction of an anthropoid ape primate since 1800. According to the study, the disappearance of the Miss Waldron's Red Colobus monkey may be the first obvious sign that an extinction wave will wipe out other large mammals. On Feb. 3, 2004, news came that the Miss Waldron's Red Colobus monkey may still exist. They say some man named Mcwarw said that it was reported that the monkey was last seen in 1978. There is evidence that the monkey does still exist. The Miss Waldron's red colobus monkey was so sensitive to habitat alteration. Although scientists believe that hunting was the reason for the Red...