(ORDO NEWS) — I hate to upset you, but flamingos are not pink birds. Anyway, they are not pink at birth.
Flamingos, at birth, are white or gray-white, and they acquire a pinkish tinge over time, feeding on special types of shrimp and blue-green algae – food that can probably destroy other animals.
Flamingo is a special bird
Flamingos tend to live in inhospitable, relatively remote wetlands – places with levels of alkalinity so high that human flesh can be burned to the bone. However, these places are home to a huge number of crustaceans, cyanobacteria and diatoms , which are food for flamingos.
All of these living organisms are dangerous to other animals because they contain toxic chemicals called carotenoids, but they are a favorite delicacy for flamingos.
Flamingos can feed on these dangerous “foods” due to a special metabolism, which ensures the processing of toxic substances in the liver, breaking them down into absorbable components and pigments.
It is these toxic pigments that end up dyeing the flamingo feathers that specific pink color – and that’s not all.
The skin, mucous membranes, egg yolks and even the fat of flamingos are colored pink-orange, which is due to the reasons mentioned above.
That is, flamingos become completely pink for the reason that they are exposed to constant poisoning, which does not pose a fatal danger to them.
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