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"We need to learn how to stop the spread of feather-loss disorder, as penguins already have problems with oil pollution and climate variation," said Boersma. "It's important to keep disease from being added to the list of threats they face."

I think this disorder problem is a problem caused by climate change. It is to see as a first answer of genetic condition to a changing environment. Hence, in future penguins are all naked? - I think no. Two possibility arise: a) Penguins become extinct or b) in future more Penguins arise suited with less feathers. This presently phenomenon is the first reaction of the biology condition of penguins in it special environmental or other said it is a phenomenon of specially penguins on it environment. Have a look to this site on Wikipedia and recognize the term "surface area to volume ratio" too. Bergmann's rule: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergmann%27s_rule

Wow, this is concerning! We can't have naked penguins running about. Seriously! Poor little guys.