🐙 Animals

Flamingos aren't born pink. Their food turns them pink.

Chicks hatch grey-white. The pink comes from carotenoid pigments in the algae and brine shrimp they eat, and flamingos in zoos fade if their diet lacks these pigments.

Source: Wikipedia: Flamingo

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