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"Young flamingos hatch with grey plumage, but adults range from light pink to bright red due to aqueous bacteria and beta carotene obtained from their food supply. A well-fed, healthy flamingo is more vibrantly coloured and thus a more desirable mate. A white or pale flamingo, however, is usually unhealthy or malnourished. Captive flamingos are a notable exception; many turn a pale pink as they are not fed carotene at levels comparable to the wild. This is changing as more zoos begin to add prawns and other supplements to the diets of their flamingos." ~ Excerpted from the Wikipedia article on Flamingos
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∙ 13y agoit is shrimp since shrimp is pink and also other pink pigments . flamingos are born white!!
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Can flamingos turn blue or green?
they don't turn green cause of the amount of algae they eat.they eat more shrimp than algae.
What do blue flamingos eat?
they eat birds and fish.
What plants do the animal flamingos eat?
They eat blue algae.
Do flamingos eat plants?
Flamingos eat a variety of blue algae and small invertebrates including mollusks and crustaceans. They also eat crabs and small fish. Chilean flamingos eat small organisms and aquatic plants.
Why arn't flamingos blue?
Flamingos are basically white and their pink color comes from the quantity of shrimp that they eat. If their main food was blue, they might have blue coloring.
Are yellow flamingos real?
Yes, because it depends on what they eat.Pink flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp,and blue flamingos eat something other then shrimp
What turns the flamingo blue?
actually did you know flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp.if they ate something they will turn the colour of what they ate.so the answer of your question is yes flamingos can change colours.
What does a flamingo consume?
Flamingos eat brine shrimp, and blue-green algae.
What consume a flamingo?
Flamingos eat brine shrimp, and blue-green algae.
Are flamingos born white?
Yes. They are born white. The way that they become pink is because they eat a certain fish that has a chemical hormone and it turn the flamingo's pink when they eat them. I hope this information is helpful to you =^_^=
What kind of bird eats brine shrimp?
NOT Flamingos - people think that Flamingos eat them but they do not, they are vegetarian and eat blue green algae (which gives them their pink color).I do not think any birds eat brine shrimp.
What do pink flamingos get eaten by?
Flamingos eat blue-green algae, brine shrimp and small crustaceans that contain pigments called carotenoids, the latter of which makes them a pink color. They are what they eat.
