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Flamingos eat shrimp, algae, and other small creatures that live in shallow water.
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They eat a lot of seafood. Their pink color actually comes from them eating shrimp!! When flamingos are born they're white but then turn pink from their shrimp diet. :)
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∙ 14y agoBlue-green and red algae, diatoms, larval and adult forms of small insects, crustaceans, molluscs, and small fishes.
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What is a flamingos diet?
Flamingos eat shrimp, algae, and other small creatures that live in shallow water.
Are flamingos apart of a jaguars diet?
They can be if the jaguars comes into the flamingos habitat, although there are not usually jaguars near most flamingos habitats.
How did flamingos turn pink?
A flamingo becomes pink gradually over a period of 1-3 years
Why are Flamingos pink according to Darwin?
Flamingos are pink or orange or white depending on what they eat. Flamingos eat algae and crustaceans that contain pigments called carotenoids. For the most part, these pigments are found in the brine shrimp and blue-green algae that the birds eat. Enzymes in the liver break down the carotenoids into the pink and orange pigment molecules deposited in the feathers, bill, and legs of the flamingos. Flamingos that eat mostly algae are more deeply colored than birds that eat the small animals that feed off of algae. Captive flamingos are feed a special diet that includes prawns (a pigmented crustacean) or additives such as beta-carotene or canthaxanthin, otherwise they would be white or pale pink. Young flamingos have gray plumage that changes color according to their diet.
Do flamingos make good pets?
no. If you love them so much get them in statue form for your yard.
Do flamingos eat fish?
Flamingos do eat small fish. It is part of their main diet. They also eat crustaceans and mollusks, algae, and small insects.
What do James flamingos eat?
James's flamingo is known as the puna flamingo. Their diet consists of small fish, algae, and bugs out of the lake.
Why are flamingo babies white?
baby flamingos are white because the shrimp they eat turns them pink so when there born they don't have that in there diet
What impact do people have on flamingo populations?
Well if we keep polluting water all the good diets of flamingos will become infected, so if the flamingos get infected they could die and without their regular diet, they would turn white instead of pink.
Are flamingos parasitism?
No, flamingos are birds.
Do flamingos?
yes flamingos do migrate
Do flamingos have teeth?
flamingos has no teeth
