Penguin's wetsuit puts him back in the swim of things

By MICHELLE LOCKE, Associated Press Writer, General Science / Biology

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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