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# I specialise in it.
Why are flamingoes pink in the wild?
(Dr Nick Riviera's old profile has dissapeared again., Wed 30 Jul 2003, 13:24, archived)
# eating shrimps innit?
Beta Carotene or summat
(I helped save b3ta! tobypowell Ptarmigan!, Wed 30 Jul 2003, 13:26, archived)
# Cos their diet
consists of shrimp.


or somesuch pink goodness
(I helped save b3ta! dirty barry, Wed 30 Jul 2003, 13:26, archived)
# nearly there.
The brine shrimp they feed off in the wild are full of hematite, and other iron compounds. Chester zoo has a bunch of grey flamingoes, and they dont half look dull.
(Dr Nick Riviera's old profile has dissapeared again., Wed 30 Jul 2003, 13:28, archived)
# Bet you didn't know
that the victorians used to feed flamingoes blue food colouring.....
(Dan Jaw, Wed 30 Jul 2003, 17:05, archived)
# because of the plankton/shrimp/whatever
they eat.

IF you feed them other stuff they turn a dull grey/brown colour.
(I helped save b3ta! jonas is not my name, Wed 30 Jul 2003, 13:26, archived)
# they eat pink
shrimps
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# they're gay
obviously
(I helped save b3ta! Slim has found god. He was down the back of the sofa., Wed 30 Jul 2003, 13:32, archived)
# they grey ones in Chester are the hard northerners then.
(Dr Nick Riviera's old profile has dissapeared again., Wed 30 Jul 2003, 13:36, archived)