🦩
Greater Flamingo
Phoenicopterus roseus
Birds · Least concern
vs
🐧
Emperor penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
Birds · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
2,530 views between them.
Emperor penguin outweighs Greater Flamingo 11× — 33.6 kg against 3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.03 kg
🦩 Greater Flamingo · AVONET
34 kg
🐧 Emperor penguin · AVONET
Body length
no figure yet
🦩 Greater Flamingo
1.15 m
🐧 Emperor penguin · SeaLifeBase
Maximum lifespan
59 yr
🦩 Greater Flamingo · AnAge
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 Aves (class), home to 18,988 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 80 million years ago.
Estimates range from 72 to 86 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Jetz, Thomas, Joy, Hartmann & Mooers 2012, Nature 491:444 (CC0).