Hairy-legged Vampire Bat vs Jaggery palm

Diphylla ecaudata compared with Caryota urens

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Hairy-legged Vampire Bat	Jaggery 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	Diphylla	Caryota
Species	Diphylla ecaudata	Caryota urens

Conservation Status

Hairy-legged Vampire Bat

LC — Least Concern

Jaggery palm

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Hairy-legged Vampire Bat	Jaggery palm
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Hairy-legged Vampire Bat

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

Jaggery palm

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests spanning the Indomalayan and Neotropic realms.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Guinea, Seychelles, South Africa), Asia (India, Maldives, Taiwan), North America (4 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).