why are flamingos pink?

Answer 1

Flamingos filter-feed on shellfish and algae. Their oddly-shaped beaks are specially adapted to separate mud and silt from the food they consume, and are uniquely used upside-down. The filtering of food items is assisted by hairy structures called lamellae which line the mandibles, and the large rough-surfaced tongue. It is the shellfish and shrimps which flamingos eat which give them their distinctive pink colour, otherwise they would be white.

Answer 2

Flamingos are pink because of thier shrimp intake

Answer 3

Because of what they eat.

Feather color varies with species, ranging from pale pink to crimson or vermilion. Caribbean flamingos have the brightest coloration: crimson or vermilion. The Chilean flamingo is pale pink.
A flamingo's pink or reddish feather color comes from its diet, which is high in alpha and beta-carotene.

Answer 4

Flamingos are pink because their diet consists of shrimp - hence the pink feathers. They are born with white feathers.

Answer 5

Flamingos are pink because of all the shrimp they eat-thats why when you see them white that means they haven't eaten shrimp.

Answer 6

It is becaouse of theur diet. This happens not just with Flamingos, but many other spicies and plants. Most of what they eat are crustaceans, diatoms, mollusks and seeds, wich provide that kind of color.

The five species found, have variations of color, but almost in all cases go from a very soft pinky tone to a very reddish vibrant color...

Those birds are lovely and inspiring, but diet makes most of its micracle... hope people would get sweeter eating pie...

Answer 7

They eat crustaceans with a pink compound in them or in zoos a pink chemical is added to their food.

Answer 8

Because God created them that way!

Answer 9

because of the shrimp that they eat.