Penguin's wetsuit puts him back in the swim of things
April 25th, 2008 By MICHELLE LOCKE, Associated Press Writer
Pierre the Penguin, 25, wears his wetsuit at the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Thursday, April 17, 2008. Pierre, who was going bald, began wearing a wetsuit six weeks ago and has begun growing back his feathers.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
(AP) -- What's black and white and warm all over? A penguin in a wetsuit, naturally. Sounds like a joke, but it's quite serious for biologists at the California Academy of Sciences, who had a wetsuit created for an African penguin to help him get back in the swim of things.
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