🐧
African Penguin
Spheniscus demersus
Birds · Critically endangered
vs
🐧
Emperor penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
Birds · Near threatened
3 clips name both of them
43,160 views between them.
Emperor penguin outweighs African Penguin 11× — 33.6 kg against 3.1 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
3.13 kg
🐧 African Penguin · AVONET
34 kg
🐧 Emperor penguin · AVONET
Body length
0.7 m
🐧 African Penguin · SeaLifeBase
1.15 m
🐧 Emperor penguin · SeaLifeBase
Maximum lifespan
27 yr
🐧 African Penguin · AnAge
no figure yet
🐧 Emperor penguin
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Animals caught on camera
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Spheniscidae (family), home to 59 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.