why are flamingoes pink?

Answer 1

flamingoes are pink because of there diet.
flamingoes eat shrimp which is pink.
besiides pink is the best colour in the world.

Answer 2

With their bright feathers and strongly hooked bills, flamingos are among the most easily recognized waterbirds. Their pink or reddish color comes from the rich sources of carotenoid pigments (like the pigments of carrots) in the algae and small crustaceans that the birds eat. The Caribbean flamingos Phoenicopterus ruber ruber are the brightest, showing their true colors of red, pink, or orange on their legs, bills, and faces.

Answer 3

Flamingos are pink due to the food they eat.

Follow this link for more info from San Diego Zoo:

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-flamingo.html

Hope this helps

Answer 4

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. People eat beta-carotene when they eat carrots.

Answer 5

A flamingo's pink or reddish feather color comes from its diet, which is high in alpha and beta-carotene.

Answer 6

because of what they eat, the small krills or something like that which lives in hot springs where flamingos also hangout.

Answer 7

there is something in the food that they eat in the wild that makes them that colour in a zoo they give them artifical version of it so that they turn pink too

Answer 8

they are just ..................................................pink! its like asking why are leaves green or the bark brown or something like that.