It's a disturbing picture: in a video you can see three flamingos. Two of them are adults and one is a juvenile. The special thing: It seems as if one flamingo is biting the other in the head.
Summary on the topic “These flamingos don’t bleed”:
At first glance you can mistakenly assume that there is a bite wound and blood. But it is crop milk that is used to feed a young animal.
This supposed bite looks as if the other flamingo had been injured. A red liquid, which at first glance might appear to be blood, runs down the head.
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Whatever is going on there may seem at first glance. It's not what you think it is. There is no fight going on, it is actually two parents feeding one young animal.
And the supposed blood can also be explained quite easily, because it is not blood. Here we see crop milk, which is intended to nourish a young animal.

Flamingos and crop milk
Crop milk is a semi-solid, crumbly excretion with a high fat and protein content that some bird species feed to young birds in the first few days after hatching. So do flamingos. The goiter milk is produced in the upper digestive tract.
And it's red. At least in flamingos it is red, for the same reason that their plumage is red. It's about the pigment carotenoid, which they consume through food. The website Wissen.de describes this.
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Flamingos feed primarily on small red aquatic crustaceans. The red pigment contained in the crabs, i.e. the carotenoid, is absorbed by the flamingos and deposited in their bodies. More precisely, in their pens. But even in zoos, where aquatic crabs are rarely fed, the flamingos' feathers retain their color.
It becomes interesting to see why the second flamingo also produces crop milk: both animals feed here! Crop milk is produced regardless of gender. Both female and male flamingos can provide this for their offspring.
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