Why are flamingo's pink?
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Color\nThe young hatch with white plumage, but the feathers of a flamingo in adulthood range from light pink to bright red, due to carotenoids obtained from their food supply. A flamingo that is well fed and healthy is vibrantly coloured. The pinker a flamingo is, the more desirable it is as a mate. A white or pale flamingo, however, is usually unhealthy or suffering from a lack of food. Notable exceptions are the flamingos in captivity, many of which turned a pale pink as they are not fed foods containing sufficient amounts of carotene. This is changing as more zoos begin to add shrimp and other supplements to the diets of their flamingos. All flamingos have 12 black flight feathers in each wing.
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Pink Flamingos is a classic and far better than Polyester. The 25th anniversary Edition is especially good.  There is one scene that is more graphic than I needed to see.  I wish Pink Stole was in every movie.  She trips me out.
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OK... there's the story that Don Jose de San Martin (Argentinian, who fought during the process of liberation from the Spanish colony) was going through some desert (dunes of Paracas, south of Lima) he was resting and had a dream about flamingos flying over him... of course we have flamingos in that area, so might have not being a dream... they say the red and white come from the color of the flamingos.\n\nNow... people also say that in fact the colors are red white red to remember the blood that was spilled fighting for our freedom (the white is the peace after liberation).\n\nWe have had through time different flags, but all of them red and white, only on different designs.\n\nInside of the flag you can see also our coat of arms, with the figure of a lama, a quinine tree and the cornucopia... to symbolize the richness of the three elements in our land, animal, vegetable (SP) and mineral.
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the reason flamingos stand on one leg is so if a predator attacks that one leg it switches legs making both legs not vulnerable at the same time. they are born with this instinct and very good balance and equilibrium.
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my hubby who is VERY straight has worn pink since the day we met. my mother had breast cancer and hubby wears pink to support those who have had breast cancer!
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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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It's just a color.\n\n\nMaybe they are color blind
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Those are called joeys because they're indeed young marsupials too. They belong to family Petauridae and are basically gliding possums. The dark longitudinal dorsal stripe is characteristic of all members of the family.\nAnd they're absolutely cute, I agree!!\nOn behalf of chinchillas, I must say that they are completely gray, with no stripes whatsoever. If you like them, check these mountain viscacha (genus Lagidium) with its young. It's a close relative of chinchillas :-)\nhttp://www.stevemetzphotography.com/photo%20pages/Mammals/Viscacha.htm
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A Tit is a bird.  You are a Boob.
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They are bright because they have pigment molecules in their petals that absorb particular wavelenghts of visible light, making them appear colored.\n\nBut the reason they evolved those pigments was to attract pollinators.
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pink because it is cute,and pretty.
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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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Flourescent pink or fuschia.
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Most bright colors in animals is not for camaflage, but for warning- Brightly colored bees, wasps, frogs, etc are that way to warn predators, not to blend into flowers.  Another reason for bright colors in large animals is for sexual display-this is especially true in birds, such as the peacock, which are thought to be direct descendants of dinosaurs- but it is also seen in mammals, such as the baboon.  The only animal that would use bright colors to blend into flowers would be very small ones that lived in or on the flower itself-there was never a dinosaur that small, so coloration in dinosaurs would never be related to flower color at all.
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There are pink dolphins in the Amazon region (boto cor de rosa, in Portuguese). They are rarer than the other kind of dolphins found there (Tucuxi).\nThe most famous and interesting story about these dolphins is that they are often blamed for making the young girls pregnant in the region. According to the legend, at night they turn into handsome young men, to which the ladies immediately fall in love.
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Flamingoes do indeed fly.  \n\nThere is a great classification system in biology that goes Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.  \nBoth Birds and Mammals belong to the Domain Eukarya, Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Chordata (the vertebrate animals); but they do not belong to the same classes...\n\nFlamingoes belong to the Class Aves, the birds, which is characterized by toothless animals that are covered in modified scales known as feathers.  Aves also have special features such as hollow bones, fused vertebrae, a keeled sternum, and a modified collar bone known as a furcula.  Birds are warm blooded, just like mammals are believe it or not!  It is believed that birds may have descended from dinosaurs!  Dinosaurs are also thought to have been warm blooded.\n\nMammals belong to the class Mammalia, which is charactarized by animals that have hair, or fur, and mammary glands with which to feed their young with. Mammals develope their young internally in a placenta (mostly, except for marsupials). Birds lay an egg which contains a yolk used to feed their young during development.  After hatching, some species of birds continue to feed their chicks, and some species do not. There are two known mammals that lay eggs, they are called monotremes and include the duck billed playpus and the echidna.\n\nI hope this helps.
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We have a horny (keratin) protection on our last phalanxes because we're mammals and almost all mammals have (except for whales and some others); it's something we probably inherited from our synapsid ancestors ("mammal-like reptiles"). \nAnd we have fingernails instead of claws or hooves because we're primates. All great apes have fingernails, whereas "lower" primates have claws. \n\nAt least, that's the evolutionary reason. I'm sorry if you were looking for something more philosophical!