Why are flamingos pink

Jill Curtis | Aug 18, 2020 | Category: Zoo

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Isaiah Franco | Aug 18, 2020

Actually, flamingos are not pink. They are born with grey feathers, which gradually turn pink in the wild because of a natural pink dye called canthaxanthin that they obtain from their diet of brine shrimp and blue-green algae. Flamingos in zoos would often lose most of their pink colouration until keepers started adding synthetic canthaxanthin to their diets. In shorter terms, it's because of what they eat.

Dillen Armstrong | Aug 18, 2020

I heard its cause they eat a lot of shrimp but I dont believe it at all

Andrew Fraser | Aug 18, 2020

I believe you thousands wouldn't

Valerie Thatcher | Aug 18, 2020

It's due to their diet.

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