True or false?? DOn't guess?

Question

Is it true that flamingos are pink because they eat a lot of shrimp, because shrimp aren't pink b4 you cook them

Answer 1

It's true that if you eat enough carrots you will get an orange tint to your skin. But to color an entire plummage of a flamingo due to what it eats is not possible.

Answer 2

It's kinda true because they do eat a lot of shrimp but their are more things that they eat that can alter their appearance.

Answer 3

yes its true.

Answer 4

Flamingoes and many other birds BECOME pink after they eat  brine shrimp, called artemia, that lives in salt water lakes, not in the sea.

It is common to see migrating white birds that come to lakes and after eating this diet they become pink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brine_shrim...

Answer 5

True.

The coloration comes from Beta Carotene, found in the brine shrimp AND the algea that the flamingos feed on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_flamin...

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/0105...

Answer 6

Their pink because of the aqueous bacteria and beta carotene in their food supply