• Kirp123@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    So it’s the Flamingo revolution because the protected area is a native habitat for flamingo. Also today I learned that flamingoes are native to Europe.

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          It could be worse. I knew flamenco means flamingo and that there’s a Spanish dance called the flamenco, but never made the connection that there could be Spanish flamingos until now.

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          Yes but the name of the dance doesn’t come from the bird. I think it comes from ‘Flemish’, which is also ‘flamenco’ in Spanish.

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        Most pictures of flamingos are the Florida kind because of the color.

        Flamingos (even American ones) aren’t born pink. They’re bright gray and look like ugly storks.

        The main difference between American and African/Eurasian flamingo is the food that they eat. The American shrimps have pigments that are toxic to most animals. Flamingos basically made this into a chili eating contest, where the most red (and surviving) bird won the right to evolution.

        The color goes away if they’re fed other things for a while, so Zoos actually have to dye the food.

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      Weird, I never would have thought of them as Baltic, I just assumed they were only native to the Gulf of Mexico