Over the course of thousands of years, birds seem to have gradually integrated into our lives and cultures, and even in our TELEVISION commercials, they often appear. Today we're going to take a look at the birds that have appeared in our TV commercials.
The first is the well-known star bird is the Flamingo (commonly known as flamingos), and the other is the "Little Sunflower Mother Classroom" advertisement produced by Sunflower Pharmaceuticals, in which the protagonist is the Little Sunflower Cockatoo!
Lady in Red, the Flamingo
Flamingos, whose scientific name is flamingos, are a very old population of birds, and many fossils of this group have been found on the American continent. However, this group has been passed down to the present, and only three genera and six species remain, which are distributed in asia, Europe and the United States. Everyone must be familiar with this bird, after all, they are the darlings of TV commercials.
As a large wader, the flamingo can reach a size of up to one meter in adulthood, and the body size is a bit peculiar, showing a thin upper and lower shape, with a thick middle form. The neck and legs are slender, and the small head and tall body shape look a bit uncoordinated, but this head shape can help the flamingo relieve the pressure on the eyes when foraging in the water.
A pair of long, thin, long legs that keep the flamingo flat on the marshland, with straight legs and a curved neck in stark contrast. However, from the overall effect, it gives people a very elegant feeling, standing still, quiet and elegant when strolling, very charming.
Flamingos prefer to live in flocks, especially in the Americas, which are huge in number, ranging from thousands to tens of thousands. They gathered together and huddled around each other, and from time to time they made a goose-like cry, and the sound was deafening, and from a distance, it looked like a wildfire burning in a swamp, which was amazing.
Most of the time flamingos are busy foraging, but this does not mean that their flight ability is poor. In general, one of the flamingos in the flock takes off, and the entire group of flamingos will fly. They straighten their necks and legs, spread their wings, and form a red "ten" character, layering and flying in the sky, the scene is spectacular.
In fact, the flamingo was not originally red, and the flamingo when it was born was snow-white, and the reason why it turned red was due to the use of a large amount of food containing pigments in the later period. In flamingos' recipes, there is a spirulina containing lumein that is their favorite.
However, after the flamingo devours these foods, it cannot digest or excrete the pigments, so these pigments accumulate in the feathers, and as they age, the feathers become as bright red as the fire.
Flamingos in the wild also act collectively during the breeding season, with hundreds of male flamingos registering a "groom" courtship group to find the other half. Although it is a collective courtship, the flamingo adheres to the tradition of monogamy and is not half-hearted. Their nests are built on small mounds surrounded by water on three sides, or they build an "island" in the water with water weeds, which are very strong and durable.
Flamingos have pale white eggs that can produce one or two eggs in a litter, and the incubation of eggs is shared by both parties. Under the careful care of their parents, a baby flamingo can be born in a month, and after a few hours, the feathers are blown dry, they can walk underground, they can go into the water with their parents the next day, and they can try to fly in three months.
The beautiful flamingos are not well distributed on the mainland, have not been recorded before, and have gradually emerged from modern times. This also became a mystery, wondering how flamingos spread across the continent? Is it natural diffusion, or is it running out of the zoo?
Cute little in white - little sunflower cockatoo
When I was a child, I didn't have a mobile phone to play with, and the only thing I could use for entertainment was the 34-inch TV, and I heard a lot of brainwashing advertisements at that time, including "Little Sunflower Mother Class Has Started!" ", still fresh in my memory. After a few days of data collection, I found that the parrot inside was originally called the little sunflower cockatoo.
The little sunflower cockatoo belongs to the family Cockatoo family, and there are four subspecies, which are named after the yellow crested crown feathers on their heads. When angry, the contracted feathers on the head will explode and open like an umbrella, which is very ornamental.
This group of cute little parrots like to move in groups, but there are not many of them, usually about 5 in a group. Active in forests, plains and farmland, for farmers, this group of little guys are a bunch of gluttonous ghosts, spoiling grain every day, eating plant seeds and flower buds, and not catching pests, which is very annoying.
However, for bird lovers, the little sunflower cockatoo is very popular in the pet market with its stunning appearance, and many countries have introduced it. As pets, the little sunflower cockatoo is very good at breeding, and the normal life expectancy can average about fifty years, which is longer than the companionship of kittens and puppies.
Unfortunately, due to the love of the pet market, the wild sunflower cockatoo has been caught too much, resulting in its wild population becoming an endangered species. Ironically, the reproductive ability of the small sunflower cockatoo is not weak, and it can produce about 6 eggs at a time, and if you do not consider artificial capture, stable growth is not a problem.
It can be seen that no matter how strong the reproductive ability is, in the face of human strength, it is very fragile.
summary
Flamingos and little sunflower cockatoos are regulars in advertising and are familiar to everyone, but the fate of the little sunflower cockatoo is very miserable. It seems that good looks are not necessarily a good thing!
Which bird do you prefer?