🦜
Kea
Nestor notabilis
Birds · Endangered
vs
🐧
Emperor penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
Birds · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
1,236 views between them.
Emperor penguin outweighs Kea 39× — 33.6 kg against 0.9 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.86 kg
🦜 Kea · AVONET
34 kg
🐧 Emperor penguin · AVONET
Body length
no figure yet
🦜 Kea
1.15 m
🐧 Emperor penguin · SeaLifeBase
Maximum lifespan
47 yr
🦜 Kea · 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 Aves (class), home to 18,988 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.