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 ...

When picturing a flock of flamingos, we often imagine long pink legs planted in a shallow lake and heads submerged as they filter feed. Though it looks peaceful, there’s a lot going on beneath the ...

Video by @memphiszooWhat do flamingos talk about on the first date? Nothin’. 🦩❤️🦩This behavior is our Chilean flamingos flirting! Chilean flamingos will use this dancing display to attract other ...

Flamingos feed by dragging their flattened beaks forward along the bottom of shallow lakes. To increase the efficiency of feeding, they stomp dance to churn the bottom, create an upwelling vortex with ...

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 ...

What is a group of flamingos called? It’s not just a flock! Discover the surprising collective noun for a group of flamingos ...

Different animals across Florida were exhibiting unusual behavior after Hurricane Idalia descended on the state early Wednesday.The storm brought powerful winds and flooding, turning some streets into ...

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 ...

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 ...

While DC may not have been in the path of totality of Monday’s solar eclipse, it’s safe to say the region came to a standstill for a brief moment that afternoon. Including, apparently, some of its ...

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 ...

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 ...