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Did you ever hear the expression "You are what you eat"? For pink flamingos, this is especially true. Flamingos are born white. They acquire their pink color by eating shrimp, plankton plankton: see marine biology.
plankton
Marine and freshwater organisms that, because they are unable to move or are too small or too weak to swim against water currents, exist in a drifting, floating state. , and other foods that contain carotenoids Carotenoids
Carotenoids are yellow to deep-red pigments.
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carotenoids (k [pigments found in plants and animals Plants and Animals are a Canadian indie-rock band from Montreal, comprised of guitarist-vocalists Warren Spicer and Nic Basque, and drummer-vocalist Matthew Woodley.[1] They are signed to Secret City Records. ]. As handlers at the Philadelphia Zoo have learned, even carrots leave flamingos "in the pink."
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