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79 sats \ 16 replies \ @Natalia 18 Jan \ on: Stacker Saloon

Saw many flamingos yesterday ( it's wild! and they were doing group dancing because it's mating season ) and learned a few fun facts: do you know why flamingo is pink? Because baby flamingo is brownish. 🦩

40 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 18 Jan

some other animal fun fact: why are bird nests always so clean?

33 sats \ 2 replies \ @Satosora 18 Jan

The parents always eat the shit of their young. When the feed them, they poop right after and the parents clean it up. Im not making it up.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 18 Jan

if you had to make up the answer, what would you think?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 18 Jan

Have you ever watched how efficient they feed the baby birds, though? Its pretty amazing.

33 sats \ 7 replies \ @Satosora 18 Jan

The shrimp they eat.

25 sats \ 6 replies \ @Natalia 18 Jan

yes!! if they don't eat enough shrimps they won't get so pink, nature is fascinating:)

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satosora 18 Jan

Yes. I think it has some kind of protein that makes them that color. Thats why at the zoo, they arent as pink as they should be.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 18 Jan

wild VS caged 👀🦩

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 18 Jan

Unfortunately, the internet says this fun is exclusive to flamingos

33 sats \ 2 replies \ @Satosora 18 Jan

ek, maybe you should test the theory? In Taiwan, they have a fishing pool where you could fish for shrimp. Then they would cook them up for you, or use them in hotpot.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 18 Jan

Good idea. Do you think one week of eating only shrimp is enough to test the theory?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 18 Jan

You would have to eat a lot of shrimp in that week. Reminds me of one of those crawfish boils. I have heard of people eating lots carrots and their skin turning orange.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 18 Jan

A group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance".

28 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 18 Jan

It's quite funny because I was talking with a friend, and we discussed how many similarities between humans and birds.

mating: show off feathers, dancing/singing
food: thriving when eating what they are meant to, shrimp for flamingos--> more pink; But got weak when being caged VS Humans get weaker and weaker when being caged in big cities.

26 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 18 Jan

the quality of being very confident in your behaviour, and liking to be noticed by other people, for example because of the way you dress or talk

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 18 Jan

I have no idea why, but English has many absurd names for groups of animals.