World Environment Day is here again on June 5 every year! Flamingos are listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. In December 2009, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) released a list of wildlife endangered by climate change, which introduced flamingos as the world's rare birds, whose survival is in jeopardy due to the rapid shrinking of the world's wetlands. It is worth protecting it by humans around the world!
Flamingo, scientific name flamingo. With an elegant long neck, attractive long legs and pink feathers, it can be called the face of the bird world.
Legend has it that flamingos are reborn in the fire after being burned by fire. It will set its feathers on fire with heavenly fire in the South Flame Mountain, and then bring the tinder back to the Loulan Ancient Kingdom and turn into ashes in the Tianyi Mountain. So it symbolizes indomitable courage, inextinguishable will and endless hope. Because flamingos keep flying south throughout their lives, in many places, flamingos symbolize loyalty and love, endless energy, unquenchable will, flamboyant youth, fantasy, changeability, etc., it seems to be synonymous with all beauty?
Let's take a look at it
Flamingos prefer to live in flocks, often in the thousands, and small flamingos in Africa are the largest flocks in the world today.
Flamingos are not strictly migratory birds and only migrate when food is scarce and the environment changes abruptly. Migration usually takes place at night and at a high altitude during the day, all to avoid birds of prey.
The similar calls of flamingos and geese are deafening, and from afar, the red legs are like a forest, and the long necks are also frequently squirming, which is very spectacular. They are gentle, usually timid and alert, and have excellent swimming skills. When flying, you can stretch your neck and legs in a straight line, and as long as one of them flies into the sky, a large group will follow closely, flying and chirping.
The red liquid that flamingos feed their offspring is not blood, but flamingo milk, a form of feeding called rumination. The mother flamingo regurgitates the nutrients in her body, pours them out along the mouth, and passes through the flamingo's head. The nutrients are then dripped through the flamingo's head into the baby flamingo's mouth. Flamingo milk is rich in nutrients such as protein and carotene, which can promote the healthy growth of baby flamingos.
The beauty that comes out of "eating"
Flamingos get their name from their flaming feathers. The bright color of the feathers comes from the carotenoids in their food. The newborn flamingo feathers are white, then gradually turn gray, and it takes three years of accumulation to eat pink. If there are not enough carotenoids in the food, flamingos may turn off-white or eat orange.
The reason why flamingos eat salmon, shrimp, crabs, etc. is attractive bright red is because flamingos, salmon, shrimp, crabs, etc. are rich in Astaxanthin (ASTA, Chinese name is astaxanthin), and animals are unable to synthesize astaxanthin, most of the shrimp and crabs obtain astaxanthin by eating plants such as algae and plankton, flamingos transmit astaxanthin through eating small shrimp, small fish, algae, plankton, etc., and the original white feathers transmit bright red. At the same time, the more vivid the red, the more robust the flamingo's physique, the easier it is to attract flamingos of the opposite sex, and the more excellent the offspring will be.
On April 4, 2022, the BBC's Science Focus website published an article titled "Why are flamingos pink?" Flamingos only develop pink after eating brine shrimp and blue-green algae.
Flamingos have wings that can spread up to more than 150 centimeters, and males are slightly larger than females, but their tail feathers are short.
The feathers of its whole body are mainly vermilion, especially the feathers at the base of the wings, shiny, from a distance, the feathers are crimson, and the colors contrast, like a roaring fire, very gorgeous, is why it is called flamingos.
Flamingos are unique with their unique girly pink feathers, and more and more people like them.
Flamingos are also known as lovebirds because they change from pink white to fiery red during love.
Flamingos are pink, flamingos are very beautiful in appearance, are pink feathers, most girls like pink, girls heart explosion flamingo symbolizes love, flamingo only finds a partner in life, which is what modern people yearn for, especially in line with the psychological values of most girls in love.
The flamingo symbolizes elegance, confidence, and flamboyance, and the flamingo's high neck gives a very beautiful feeling, and she walks quite elegantly and confidently, which is a concept that young people are pursuing now.
The flamingo represents not only a bird, but also a meaning and spirit. Just as flamingos are in nature, the confidence, passion, beauty and purity they represent should be reflected in each of us, adding color and strength to our lives.
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