Friday Flamingo Facts: Tiny but mighty! The Lesser Flamingo is the smallest of the world’s six flamingos species, but don’t let their size fool you. They thrive in environments that are deadly to most other animals! Lesser Flamingo Superpowers: 1. Inhabits caustic, highly alkaline lakes that would burn the skin of humans and other animals. 2. Lives in lake water that reaches temperatures of 140 degrees Fahrenheit. 3. Eats toxic cyanobacteria for breakfast. While cyanobacteria (or blue-green alga

There are so many fun facts about our beautiful pink friends! 🦩 There are six flamingo species — The Chilean flamingo, the lesser flamingo, the Andean flamingo, the puna, or James's flamingo and the American or Caribbean flamingo. 🦩 Don’t let your eyes deceive you — a flamingo’s knees don’t bend backward! 🦩 Flamingo parents feed their chicks a liquid they secrete, called crop milk. 🦩 Yes, flamingos can fly. Come admire them at Casela: https://bit.ly/3yARkaw Or call us on 401 6500 for more in

22K views · 697 reactions | Our lesser flamingo chicks are out on habitat with the adults - you can’t miss them, they’re the little gray ones!  Their fluffy gray will eventually turn into that characteristic pink plumage by age 3 or 4, thanks to the pigments or carotenoids found in their diet! For now, they’re busy being sleepy, gray flamingos! 囹勇 | Fort Worth Zoo | Facebook