• Kirp123@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    So it’s the Flamingo revolution because the protected area is a native habitat for flamingo. Also today I learned that flamingoes are native to Europe.

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          17 days ago

          Yes but the name of the dance doesn’t come from the bird. I think it comes from ‘Flemish’, which is also ‘flamenco’ in Spanish.

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          It could be worse. I knew flamenco means flamingo and that there’s a Spanish dance called the flamenco, but never made the connection that there could be Spanish flamingos until now.

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            17 days ago

            Well, to your defence, there are no English lions, yet they’re prominently present in symbols of English culture.

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              16 days ago

              But knowing us, we’ll just have stolen the lions from another country during our angry-little-man phase :)

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        17 days ago

        Most pictures of flamingos are the Florida kind because of the color.

        Flamingos (even American ones) aren’t born pink. They’re bright gray and look like ugly storks.

        The main difference between American and African/Eurasian flamingo is the food that they eat. The American shrimps have pigments that are toxic to most animals. Flamingos basically made this into a chili eating contest, where the most red (and surviving) bird won the right to evolution.

        The color goes away if they’re fed other things for a while, so Zoos actually have to dye the food.

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      17 days ago

      Also, I’m sick of these entitled sacks of bone and smeg being able to do whatever they want. Being told “no” must be a completely alien concept to them.

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          He has money. They all have money. It’s not enough. It will never be enough to fill whatever is missing from their meaningless existences.