Fifteen Fascinating Flamingo Facts

Flamingos are a familiar sight even to those who have never seen one in real life. The tropical wading birds have long legs with backward-bending knees, long curvy necks, and most noticeably, they are pink. We can admire flamingos or laugh at them (and often both), so we may as well learn something about them, in a list I posted at mental_floss.

Photograph by Pedros Szekely.