🐧
Emperor penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
Birds · Near threatened
vs
🦭
Harbour seal
Phoca vitulina
Carnivores · Least concern
One clip names both of them
16,579 views between them.
Harbour seal outweighs Emperor penguin 2.8× — 94.3 kg against 33.6 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
34 kg
🐧 Emperor penguin · AVONET
94 kg
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
Body length
1.15 m
🐧 Emperor penguin · SeaLifeBase
1.81 m
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🐧 Emperor penguin
48 yr
🦭 Harbour seal · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
镜头下的动物
站内动物的实拍影像——捕猎、打斗，还有各自过日子的样子。
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.