Yeah, well my dad's THIS big
 - Aptenodytes 
					forsteri
					
					Emperor penguins lay the smallest eggs of any bird relative to their body size, just 1.5% of the adult mass, so this means that when first hatched, the chicks are the smallest by relative size of any birds too.
					 
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This picture by Jerome Maison. © 2005 Bonne Pioche Productions 
					/ Alliance De Production Cinematographique. 
From the Warner 
					Brothers film The March of the Penguins used here by permission 
					of
					
					Warner Brothers.
 
				