This video of feeding flamingos left many viewers terrified, but has a perfectly simple explanation
Flamingo parents feed their chicks bright red crop-milk, secreted from glands in their throats, that help turn their feathers pink! : r/Awwducational
Cincinnati Zoo on Twitter: "Flamingos feed their chicks a type of milk, called crop milk, that comes from the parent's digestive tract. Both males and females can feed the chick this way,
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Cincinnati Zoo on Twitter: "@t_rhoads What you see on the chick is crop milk. Flamingos feed their chicks a type of milk, called crop milk, that comes from the parent's digestive tract." /
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