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Photo by GoodFocused/Shutterstock.com Flamingos are unique creatures with plenty of iconic idiocracies, but perhaps one of the most fascinating aspects of these beautiful birds is their tongues. Flamingo tongues are one-of-a-kind. That might seem odd to you - a bird’s tongue...
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Photo by ArCaLu/Shutterstock.com You look at a flamingo and see a friend. A brine shrimp looks at a flamingo and sees its life flash before its eyes. A crocodile looks at a flamingo and sees its next meal. Where you...
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Photo by SIWAT_R/Shutterstock.com Flamingos are peculiar creatures in so many ways, but there are good reasons for all of their eccentricities. One of their many oddities is the shape of their beak. Why are flamingo beaks bent? There’s a perfectly...
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Adult Flamingo Feeding Chick - Photo by DavidNagy/Shutterstock.com Unlike many creatures in the animal kingdom, flamingos generally raise their young as a partnership, in some ways similar to how humans raise their children. That means the male and female parents work...
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Photo by MelKowasic/Shutterstock.com You might find the pinkest flamingo to be the prettiest, but that doesn’t mean it’s friendly. In fact, the pinker a flamingo is, the more likely it is to be aggressive. According to a 2020 study published...
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