🦧
Bornean orangutan
Pongo pygmaeus
Primates · Critically endangered
vs
🐧
Emperor penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
Birds · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
18,032 views between them.
Bornean orangutan outweighs Emperor penguin 1.8× — 58.9 kg against 33.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
59 kg
🦧 Bornean orangutan · COMBINE
34 kg
🐧 Emperor penguin · AVONET
Body length
1.2 m
🦧 Bornean orangutan · COMBINE
1.15 m
🐧 Emperor penguin · SeaLifeBase
Maximum lifespan
60 yr
🦧 Bornean orangutan · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐧 Emperor penguin
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.