Jaggery palm vs Monk Saki

Caryota urens compared with Pithecia monachus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Jaggery palm	Monk Saki
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Liliopsida (Monocots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Arecales (Arecales)	Primates (Primates)
Family	Arecaceae	Pitheciidae
Genus	Caryota	Pithecia
Species	Caryota urens	Pithecia monachus

Conservation Status

Jaggery palm

LC — Least Concern

Monk Saki

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Jaggery palm	Monk Saki
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).