Flamingos look graceful, but when it's time to eat, they're very silly. "All of their feeding behavior is so weird," says Steven Whitfield, the director of terrestrial and wetlands conservation at the ...

Q: You recently wrote that several kinds of birds often stand on one leg but you didn't explain why. Whenever I see a flock of flamingos in a zoo, at least some of them are on one leg, Surely ...

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It is nesting season for the flamingos at the Tulsa Zoo. News On 6’s Alyssa Miller was live and showed us more about this process on the Arca Continental Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages Porch.

It appears that birds of a feather really do flock together. A new paper published in Behavioural Processes suggests that flamingos develop long-term friendships, technically called associations, with ...

A couple of lesser flamingos squabble in an early courtship behavior in the colony located at Disney’s Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World, Thursday, March 23, 2023. Park animal keepers have come up ...

Spend some time watching flamingos, and you might think that not much goes on in their tiny heads. But these elegant avians actually lead complex social lives. Each bird has certain other individuals ...

Migration: An Animal Behavior That Influences Ageing This study shows that seasonal migration – a behavior exhibited by billions of animals – can influence the rate of ageing. In flamingos, deciding ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sara Tabin is a science contributor writing about animals. The color pink isn’t usually associated with aggression, but new ...

Greater flamingos apparently aren’t fans of a sun-faded look for their neck feathers. Flamingos’ feathers help the birds fly, keep their bodies dry and attract mates. The feathers get their red color ...

When Hurricane Idalia slammed into Florida last August, the Category 3 storm produced an unexpected outcome: a surge in the Sunshine State's flamingo population. The hurricane hit during the flamingos ...