Bergmans’s Fruit Bat vs Elephant Palm

Scotonycteris bergmansi compared with Borassus aethiopum

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bergmans’s Fruit Bat	Elephant Palm
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Liliopsida (Monocots)
Order	Chiroptera (Bats)	Arecales (Arecales)
Family	Pteropodidae (Fruit Bats)	Arecaceae
Genus	Scotonycteris	Borassus
Species	Scotonycteris bergmansi	Borassus aethiopum

Conservation Status

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

LC — Least Concern

Elephant Palm

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Bergmans’s Fruit Bat	Elephant Palm
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Elephant Palm

Habitat

Inhabits deserts and xeric shrublands within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Guinea and Yemen.

Bergmans’s Fruit Bat

The Bergmans’s Fruit Bat (Scotonycteris bergmansi) is a species in the genus Scotonycteris. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.