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Are flamingos born white

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Yes. They are born white. The way that they become pink is because they eat a certain fish that has a chemical hormone and it turn the flamingo's pink when they eat them. I hope this information is helpful to you =^_^=

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yes flamingos are born white... when flamingos are born their white but they eat so much shrimp when there little that they turn pink... true story!! Google it if you don't believe me:))

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baby flamingos are white because the shrimp they eat turns them pink so when there born they don't have that in there diet


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