pink gracious
FLAMINGO "only the gentle are ever really strong" - James Dean When you think about a flamingo the first thing that comes to your mind is the color pink, but flamingos are born white (so they get that pink color as they grow up?). No, they get that pink color because they eat a lot of brine shrimp and algae (huh?), Carotenoids give carrots their orange color or turn ripe tomatoes red. They are also found in the microscopic algae that brine shrimp eat. As a flamingo dines on algae and brine shrimp, this makes their feathers pink. There are so many things about this animal that are weird. Flamingos are filter feeders. It is a form of food procurement in which food particles or small organisms are randomly strained from water. You would usually see this in whales and marine animals. A flamingo will place its head upside down in the water with its bill pointed at its feet. It then sweeps its head side-to-side, using its tongue to pump water in and out of its bill. Comb-like pla...