Dark fruit-eating bat vs Elephant Palm

Artibeus obscurus compared with Borassus aethiopum

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Dark fruit-eating 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	Phyllostomidae	Arecaceae
Genus	Artibeus	Borassus
Species	Artibeus obscurus	Borassus aethiopum

Conservation Status

Dark fruit-eating bat

LC — Least Concern

Elephant Palm

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Dark fruit-eating bat	Elephant Palm
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Dark fruit-eating bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

Elephant Palm

Habitat

Inhabits deserts and xeric shrublands within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Guinea and Yemen.