🐧
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.
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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.