In nature, flamingos use blood to feed their offspring, what is going on?

Flamingos don't actually feed their offspring with blood, it's just a nutrient, and flamingos put their beaks on the head of another flamingo because flamingos can't bend their necks on their own, so they can only feed nutrients to baby flamingos in this way.

Flamingos actually use their own blood to feed their chicks? Experts refute rumors, that's unique milk!

You might think that flamingos are dedicating their blood to feed their chicks, but that's not the case. Male flamingos, like females, can produce milk from their digestive tract and feed it to their chicks from their beaks. This milk is rich in protein, carotene, antioxidants and various immune antibodies, and its nutritional value is very high, which can ensure the rapid growth of the chicks.

"Blood" is the milk that both males and females send to secrete this red liquid from the digestive tract, which contains not only various nutrients, but also some heme. That's why we can see flamingos using "blood" to catch chicks, but this is actually just a kind of red milk, and the flamingos themselves don't feel any discomfort.

Newborn chicks do not yet have the fiery red feathers of their parents, while newborn baby flamingos have gray feathers and their beaks are not curved. The baby flamingo learns to fly when it is two months old, and after a year it is no different from the adult bird, but the whole body color is still gray, and it does not turn red until the third year, and the lifespan can reach 30-50 years.

Flamingos are not having a good time right now, and they generally prefer to choose the vicinity of the Divine Limb Wetland as their habitat, but due to the rapid decline of wetland area around the world, the flamingo's habitat has also become precarious. Back in 2009, the International Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) introduced flamingos as the world's rarest birds. In 2013, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) added flamingos to the Red List of the World's Threatened Species.

Even if the flamingo is listed as an endangered species, it still can't get rid of the decline in their numbers. Perhaps humans are just writing them down in books, but they are still not prepared to pay attention to the fact that the world's wetlands are gradually decreasing, and there are many reasons for the decline of wetlands, but the most harmful factors are probably the most aware of them themselves.

The blood flamingos feed their offspring is actually a unique nutrient solution for flamingos, flamingos will break down seaweed, shrimp, clams, insects and other foods into a red nutrient solution to feed to young birds, which contains part of heme, and heme is rich in nutrients, which can ensure the rapid growth of young birds.

The importance of protecting animals

Since I was a child, I have known that the protection of biodiversity is the protection of human beings, and in the same way, the protection of human cultural diversity. Human beings and living things are interconnected and live together, and they are indispensable expansion. In the natural environment, we are in balance with each other, but as humans hunt animals for money and profit, they are in danger of extinction.

From 1600 to 1996, 164 species of birds were missing; From 1871 to 1970, 43 species of mammals disappeared. Originally, there were 2.5 billion species of animals and plants on the earth, but human activities have destroyed their environment, and many animals and plants have disappeared.

In recent years, there have been animals on the planet that have been declared extinct after a while, and some animals have been declared on the verge of extinction. For the sake of the diversity of friends, please protect wild balance diversity.

Some people don't understand this situation, they only seek personal gain, and a large number of rare animals are culled, and every time Lao Fan News is sad. Everyone knows that wild animals are human friends and protecting animals is a virtue since childhood, but it is too stupid to forget these for selfish interests. We should take care of this vulnerable group, give them a warm home, give them a habitat, and treat them well, that is, be kind to ourselves.

Flamingos do not feed their offspring with blood, and the red liquid that flamingos feed their offspring is not blood, but the flamingo's milk, and this type of feeding is called rumination.

The mother flamingo ruminates the nutrients in her body, pours them out along her mouth, and passes over the flamingo's head. The nutrients are then dripped through the flamingo's head into the baby flamingo's mouth. Flamingo milk is rich in nutrients such as protein and carotene, which can promote the healthy growth of baby flamingos.

Flamingo's habits:

Flamingos like to live in groups, and in the flamingo's life, flamingos often appear in piles, and few flamingos act alone, and this form of social life, just like the countryside now, gathers the whole village. In the eyes of the flamingo, it is also this "rural" way of life. FlamingosUnlike most birds, flamingos do not move with the weather or climate.

Strictly speaking, flamingos are not strictly migratory birds, they do not move with their environment. If flamingos migrate, they are likely to hail pure at night, while some other animals will also rest at night. At this time of night, flamingos are less likely to be attacked by other flamingos, ensuring that their lives are not affected by migration.

The flamingo's natural courage is relatively small, but it is also shy, and when humans approach it, it will often fly away from people to protect itself, and these birds are very intelligent and will choose to run away when they encounter strange species. So flamingos can only be seen from a distance and cannot be approached by them.