Jaggery palm vs Medje Free-tailed Bat

Caryota urens compared with Mops congicus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Jaggery palm	Medje Free-tailed Bat
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Arecales (Arecales)	Chiroptera (Bats)
Family	Arecaceae	Molossidae
Genus	Caryota	Mops
Species	Caryota urens	Mops congicus

Conservation Status

Jaggery palm

LC — Least Concern

Medje Free-tailed Bat

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Jaggery palm	Medje Free-tailed Bat
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

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).