Do Flamingos turn pink when they eat shrimp?
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Wild flamingos are pink because they eat carotene-containing brine shrimps (one species) or blue-green algae (another species). Lacking such food in zoos, they turn white unless fed caroteniferous substitutes --carrots, beets, or red peppers in the old days, or the additive canthaxanthin today.
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Wild flamingos are pink because they eat carotene-containing brine shrimps (one species) or blue-green algae (another species). Lacking such food in zoos, they turn white unless fed caroteniferous substitutes --carrots, beets, or red peppers in the old days, or the additive canthaxanthin today.
