Palm Walk years old, although scientific research has shown that the trees could live as much as five hundred years. As such, the university has drawn up plans to replace the palms with Date palms of an unknown cultivar, in the coming years. These trees would not only provide more shade than the current trees, but they would also allow for harvestable dates, which could then be sold locally. While there is no timeline on replacement of current palms, it is expected that it would be done in the coming decade. Originally, there was no official name for the Palm Walk, as
Silver fruit-eating bat terrain between . They feed on fruits found in the canopy of tropical to temperate forests and roost under cut leaves of banana or palm trees during the day. They breed throughout the year, but with two distinct peaks. There are no recognised subspecies, although this was not the case prior to 2008, when the Bogota fruit-eating bat ("Dermanura bogotensis"), of Venezuela and the Guianas, was raised to full species status. Silver fruit-eating bat The silver fruit-eating bat ("Dermanura glauca") is a South American bat species of the family Phyllostomidae. The silver fruit-eating bat is a small bat, measuring only