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 ...

Furthermore, the way a flamingo jerks its head straight upward from the water creates a vortex along the vertical axis. Its beak chattering, in which it opens and shuts its lower beak at a rate of ...

Riddle us this: Which animal is pink, curved beaked and a master of the physics required to create water tornadoes? If you guessed flamingos, you're right. New research out this month in the ...

The feeding behavior begins with the feet, Ortega Jiménez said. If you look at a flamingo in very shallow water, you can often see its dancing-in-place or circular dancing behavior.