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flamingo

  • Flamingos are grey when they are born
  • Several hundred to several thousand flamingos are all involved simultaneously with ritualized postures and movements to synchronize breeding
  • Through slow-motion photography, researchers discovered that these birds pump water through their bills 20 times a second to filter their food which consist of algae, crustaceans and small fish
  • Flamingos pee on their legs to cool off (unsure)
  • Flamingos are pink because of the pink pigment in the shrimp and crustaceans that they eat
  • There are more plastic flamingos than there are real ones

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