🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐧
Emperor penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
Birds · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
8,483 views between them.
Human outweighs Emperor penguin 1.8× — 62 kg against 33.6 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Neil Kelley (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
Emperor penguin
1.17 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
34 kg
🐧 Emperor penguin · AVONET
Body length
no figure yet
🧍 Human
1.15 m
🐧 Emperor penguin · SeaLifeBase
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐧 Emperor penguin
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐧 Emperor penguin
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
no figure yet
🐧 Emperor penguin
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
Animales captados por la cámara
Imágenes reales de los animales de este sitio: cazando, peleando y haciendo su vida.
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.