Scientists put penguin in a wetsuit
by friver ~ April 25th, 2008. Filed under: Animals, Environment, Funny.
This little guy is Pierre, an African penguin living at San Francisco’s Academy of Sciences.
He’s 25 years old, pretty hoary for a penguin, and is unfortunately starting to go bald around the tushie.
Penguins don’t have blubber and need their feathers to keep warm, so instead of sitting around watching Pierre shiver after every swim, biologists from the California Academy of Sciences had a custom wetsuit cut just to his size.
The upshot is that wetsuit-clad Pierre has been doing so well, some of his feathers have grown back, and he is currently being weaned away from the wetsuit.
