Flamingos Animal Behavior

The flamingos are creatures that the color of their feathers rely on what type of food they eat. The behavioral pattern that we see from the flamingos in the zoo and flamingos in the wild are different. The behavioral patterns will change when comparing a flamingo at the zoo and one in the wild. While the one at the zoo will have the food given to them, the ones in the wild will fight and hunt for their food. During the day there is a time when the flamingos have no energy and are able to sleep.

The Flamingo ( scientific name: Phoenicopterus) is a very interesting animal. Flamingos are large birds, usually 3 to 5 feet in height, with long necks, sticklike legs and pink or reddish feathers, found in both the Western and Eastern Hemispheres. They can live 20 to 30 years in the wild or up to 50 years in a zoo. Flamingos live in large flocks in aquatic areas. A group of flamingos is called a "pat". Their oddly-shaped beaks are specially adapted to separate mud and silt from the food they consume, and are uniquely used upside-down. The filtering of food items is assisted by hairy structures called lamellae (a thin layer of plate like tissue) which line the mandibles, and the large rough-surfaced tongue. It is the shellfish and shrimps which flamingos eat which give them their distinctive pink color, otherwise they would be white. Which is the color they are born with, a whitish grayish color. It is believed that flamingos are monogamous (having only one mate). Once they mate, they tend to stay with that mate. A group of flamingos will all mate at the same time so that all of the chicks …show more content…
The flamingos could get their food inside containers on their small pond area. At around noon the weather is hot. They use that time to sleep. The flamingo used for this observation spend most of its time eating and