What Makes A Flamingo Pink?

Question

Do you know? Thanx in advance for your answers. =)

Answer 1

Its diet. Specifically: algae

Diet

Flamingos filter-feed on brine shrimp. 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. The colour of the flamingo does not arise, however, as a result of the shrimp it eats but rather the blue-green algae in its diet. (Despite the name "blue-green algae", as well as containing chlorophyll, is rich in blue and red pigments, so its 'blue' is often red, violet, brown and even orange).

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Answer 2

well
depends on what the flamingo eats
the pink thigy has to eat sumthing warm and pink like a peach
and then it'll turn pink
haha
or the shrimpy thingys inside water =D

Answer 3

only moments ago i watched this on television . the birds eat brine thats a kind of little fish or something anyway its very small
the brine turns pink when it dies. this is what give the flamingo its pink colour. how about that watching tv was usefull

Answer 4

The pigmentation in the animal is what decides it. I assume through genetic engineering you could make it any color. A black flamingo you say! Well I Never!

Answer 5

when the flamingo eats the crawfish the nutrients in the crawfise wich cause the crawfish to be red cause the flamingos skin to be red and the feathers turn pink, nasikly you are what you eat

Answer 6

The little pink/shrimp they eat out of the water you see them standing in

Answer 7

It's because they eat the pink shrimp. They absorb the pigment from the shrimp somehow. : )

Answer 8

By eating shrimp.

Answer 9

They take on the pigmentation in their food, Shrimp, Krill and so on.

Answer 10

I think it's the food it eats.


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