why are flamingos pink?
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it is the carotinoids as hound9 said.  Many zoos add extra red food coloring and carotinoids to the diets of their flamingos to make them extra pink and healthy looking.
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There are a few different levels of reasons for this. \nBecause if skunks were a different colour they wouldn't be skunks - we might call them "pink polkadot smellybeasts" and that would make them a different creature.\nBecause brightly coloured skunks don't survive - Try it out, paint a skunk pink and see how long it lasts.\nBecause 'trees' covers an entire xylum of species - just about everything with a trunk - but skunk covers a specific species. There are is a lot more room for colour variation when you've got 1000s of different species.
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I think men who wear pink--just like women who wear pink--generally do so because they like the color, and/or think that they look good in it. Men have, for quite awhile, not had a very good variety of options in terms of clothing styles, patterns, and colors, so perhaps they are simply taking advantage of a somewhat greater range of fashion choices now avaliable to them.
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use hot pink, it will help you see the ball better
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It wasn't always that way.  Pink used to be a "male color" and blue was a "feminine color."\n\nRead more in the link provided.\n\nhttp://www.answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=238733
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Actually it's more of a pink than red.  And it's not always red.\n\nThe red comes from all the dust suspended in the atmosphere, which comes from the severe dusts storms that are common on Mars.  The Martian "soil" is red, so when a lot of that "soil" or dust is in the air, that makes the sky look pink.  The soil is red because there's a lot of a rust-like compound in it.\n\nIf all the dust settles out of the sky, then the sky would be a pale blue color.  Blue for the same reason Earth's sky is blue.  Pale because the Martian atmosphere is very very thin.
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Chickens, being primarily diurnal (day living) birds (a group that tends to have good vision and colour acuity) probably have at least some ability to distinguish colour.\n\nThe usually drab markings of most chickens (especially wild Galliformes like grouse) are probably more for camoflage than due to an inability to see colour.  There are some Galliform avians that definitely have bright plumage for mate attraction, indicating that colour vision is present in those species (most notably Pavo cristatus - the Peacock), so it's likely that chickens can too.
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How about:\n  \n   Pink In Motion\n   Flamingo's\n   Hot Pink\n   Soft & Pink\n   Hot Pink Mama's\n   Pink Panthers\n   Pink Ladies\n   Pink Squirrels\n   Pinkies\n   Pink Dynamo's\n\nOr any combination thereof.
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Really, men don't think that pink is HOT! But they do like the color pink for some reason. Even though it's statistically a girls color, these days you see more and more guys wearing it. IT'S NOT HOT! IT'S JUST COOL! Do you like pink?
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chickens fly, in key west they are always up in the trees, peacocks because the plumage is too heavy and penguins because the wings have evolved into fins
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The only reason color exists is because objects (rain drops in this case) reflect certain wavelengths and obsorb certain wavelengths of light.  The only reason we see the colors in the rainbows is because the sun produces white light which, when refracted, will produce ALL OF THE POSSIBLE COLORS.  This is interesting, you will notice there is no brown in the spectrum (or rainbow); therefore, brown is not a color.  The sun doesn't have the same color as the rainbow, the rainbow has the same color as the sun.
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Perhaps because they use the color to attract females.  Or, since females are more essential to reproduction, it is beneficial for the females to blend in with the environment to avoid predators.
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Color. Males have more of a red breast where females have more of a brownish color on their breast.
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generally they aren't.  the males are ornamented to attract their female counterparts.  most female birds are camouflaged (sp?) in order to sit on the nest without predators finding them.
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No, it was a drug-induced hallucination written to seem as though it came from pure imagination. So hallucinated flamingoes are ok to knock around, as long as you're nice to the real ones.
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the color magenta \nit a pink shade that looks almost neon-ish
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If you have just had a baby, they are plastic pink flamingos.  A peculiar custom of North Americans to celebrate child birth. Better to walk among them than over them. \n\nOr perhaps if you are in the southern hemisphere, a type of daisy that is pink can sprout up overnight.  These you can walk over.  They will just spring back. \n\nOr if you are at your computer, and the ground is inside your home, I would sincerely suggest you take a vaccum cleaner and vaccum your sweater.