🐾
Beluga whale
Delphinapterus leucas
Marine mammals · Least concern
vs
🐧
Emperor penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
Birds · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
2,148 views between them.
Beluga whale outweighs Emperor penguin 41× — 1,380 kg against 33.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
1,380 kg
🐾 Beluga whale · COMBINE
34 kg
🐧 Emperor penguin · AVONET
Body length
4.3 m
🐾 Beluga whale · SeaLifeBase
1.15 m
🐧 Emperor penguin · SeaLifeBase
Maximum lifespan
40 yr
🐾 Beluga whale · COMBINE
no figure yet
🐧 Emperor penguin
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
חיות מול המצלמה
צילומים אמיתיים של החיות באתר – צדות, נלחמות, ופשוט ממשיכות בשלהן.
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.