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Balding Penguin Gets a Wetsuit!
A custom-crafted wetsuit may have helped Pierre the African penguin, seen here, recover from a bout of baldness.
Biologists at the California Academy of Sciences commissioned the gear after Pierre began shedding his insulating, waterproof feathers, leaving him with an embarrassingly exposed behind.
Thanks to the custom wet suit and time, Pierre is now doing much better! Way to go for ingenuity on the part of his keepers and Oceanic Worldwide, a supplier of dive gear based in San Leandro, California.
