Flamingos are birds that live in Chile, Argentina and Peru, and are also found in Africa and India. Flamingos are about 80-160 cm tall, weigh 2.5-3.5 kg, and their feathers are mainly scarlet, especially the feathers at the base of the wings, shiny and shiny, and look like a raging fire from a distance.
So why are flamingos so red? Because what to eat to make up for what, not false at all!
The secret of the color of flamingos is that they like to eat algae plankton and small fish and shrimp in the water, while algae and small fish and shrimp are rich in astaxanthin themselves, and the ingested astaxanthin is retained on the body, and it is precisely because of astaxanthin that they can be red from head to toe.
The flamingo has a thin sieve-shaped filter plate in its mouth that filters food such as spirulina out of muddy water and swallows it. A flamingo can eat half a kilogram of spirulina a day. After the small flamingo matures, the feathers on the body will gradually appear bright red, and the more vivid the color, the stronger the body.
In courtship season, a large flock of flamingos gathers to run around, they will raise their necks to attract the attention of the opposite sex, and single flamingos will seize the opportunity to successfully get off the list.
Flamingos are also known as love birds because they change from pink to fiery red during love.
There is a poem that reads:
Pick up a flag of acacia
I beat the drum and shouted in front of the night
A glass of red wine
Hanging in the air
Confused eyes
See through you in the night
Dresses scattered all over the place
Bloom into beautiful flowers for you
I stood by the window
Indulge in the excitement of youth
The life of a flamingo
Just for you to be born again in the fire of desire...
The flamingo is also a master of the animal kingdom, thanks to a magical counter-circulation system!
They keep their thin legs warm through a reverse circulation system, and the blood returning from the foot to the trunk is heated by the blood flowing from the trunk to the foot, which reduces the total heat loss.
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