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Photo: baby flamingo at the Bronx Zoo
mongabay.com
October 16, 2007
For these Bronx Zoo flamingos, the mantra "you are what you eat" really rings true.
Unknown to many Zoo-goers flamingos aren't necessarily pink.
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Photo taken Monday, September 10, 2007 by Julie Larsen Maher. © WCS
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And none of the six species is native to Florida.
Without the right diet — which means one rich in carotenoids, the plant-based pigments that make marigolds and other flowers so colorful and carrots orange and tomatoes red, etc. — they can be healthy but white! Their crimson color helps them fit in with the crowd, which protects them from predators. Here, a month-old Chilean flamingo chick -- which hatched on August 17 -- enjoys some crop milk courtesy of its father. Soon the chick will eat a diet of krill, a kind of small shrimp, and a nutritionally-complete food pellet. In the wild, they feed on algae and small crustaceans.
CITATION:
mongabay.com (October 16, 2007). Photo: baby flamingo at the Bronx Zoo. http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1016-wcs_flamingo.html
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