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After listening to Fang Ye's explanation, the tourists turned their attention to the big flamingos and saw which one was looking for food in the water with its head down.

The water surface in the deep water area can submerge their appendages, and the shallow water area is only ten centimeters, and you can see the mud underwater.

A big flamingo in the shallow waters, with its neck bent and drooping like a snake, put its beak in the mud, turned its head slowly in circles, stirred up the mud, and chewed twice with its mouth.

The big flamingo lowered its head and walked forward, placing its beak in the silt, leaving behind a shallow, meandering track.

He stomped his feet twice, then lowered his head and drew circles.

Fang Ye said: "There are small shrimps placed in the lake, which is also the staple food of flamingos! There are also flamingo noodles made of shrimp skin, fish meal, and corn meal.

See that flamingo stomping? They stomped the ground with their feet in order to let the food below float up. "

A big flamingo in the deep water area, its slender long legs can't reach the bottom of the water, and floats on the water like a pink whooper swan.

He lowered his head and glanced, then his pink-white tail was raised, and his head was buried deep in the water.

It looks like a swan when feeding.

"quack~gugu~"

The call of flamingos sounds a bit similar to that of geese, with a characteristic nasal sound.

Hundreds of flamingos are dizzying for tourists to see.

Lily suddenly found a big flamingo in the middle of the lake. It straightened its neck and screamed rhythmically. Its head seemed to be wound up, swaying from side to side on the horizontal line, twisting and snapping back.

Like, who am I, where am I, and what am I going to do here?

I don't know what the wind is blowing.

Feeling very funny, he pointed to the big flamingo and said to his companion: "Hey, look at that one!"

When Lin Hao and the others looked over, the big flamingos next to them seemed to be infected, with their necks straight, their heads swaying horizontally from side to side, and at the same time acting as repeaters, shouting loudly in unison: "Quack~ Gugu~"

who I am? What am I going to do?

It looks like the travel agency has organized a trip. When the tourists arrive at the station, they suddenly find that the car is not coming!

Looking left and right, where's the car? What about the driver? What about the tour guide, why didn't the tour guide come? Not to be deceived, right?

At a loss!

Tourists can't help laughing when they look at them screaming "quack" and turning their heads in confusion!

"Yo, what is this doing?"

"This confused little eyes!"

"Hahaha, it's so fun, is this dancing?"

"Let's swing together! dj, music!"

There are more and more big flamingos waving their heads and shouting rhythmically, and gradually spread to the whole group. Everyone shakes their heads together, and they move faster and faster, like some kind of strange dance. The scene is magical and spectacular!

The tourists all wanted to say something, but the tidy voices of the big flamingos gathered together, drowned out the other voices, and couldn't hear them.

I can only quickly take two photos and a video to record this wonder.

About a minute or so has passed!

The cry of these flamingos stopped abruptly, and their heads did not move.

For a while, the surroundings were extremely silent, only the low and short grunts of the big flamingos could be heard, their beaks pointed towards the sky, and they seemed to be still a little unfinished.

Some flamingos lowered their heads and continued to forage, while others raised their shoulders and tail feathers, and spread their wings to the sides, revealing a touch of black under the pink wings, as if they were attacking other flamingos around them. show off.

The tourists couldn't wait: "The principal..."

Fang Ye knew what they were asking: "Is it fun? Swinging the head is the most common courtship behavior of flamingos!

Flamingos have many interesting group behaviors, which are basically related to courtship.

Their breeding season is around March to June, and these group behaviors can help flamingos synchronize their reproductive cycles, because their habitat is complex and changeable, and if the salt lake water levels are most suitable and food is most abundant, they fail to mate. , may miss the opportunity and will not be able to breed this year, this group behavior is very important.

So come to our zoo to play more during this time, maybe you can enjoy more interesting behaviors of them.

Although it can be seen after the breeding season, it is not so frequent, just like the peacock opening screen. "

These big flamingos, who came to the zoo to settle down, have already missed a period of breeding. I don't know if they can breed this year.

Breeding is first of all to build nests, but after the construction of the flamingo house, the breeders completed the work on behalf of the flamingo.

We specially selected a dozen bags of selenium-rich laterite that are most suitable for nesting them, and moved them to a quiet corner behind the island.

The front here is invisible, and there is a place for peeping at the back.

The red clay is mixed into thin mud, and after mixing, it is piled up into a nest that looks like an upside-down washbasin, with a small pit in it. The flamingo nests are arranged separately, and those who don't know it think it is a mine array.

For flamingos in the wild, to build a nest is to bring the silt over a little bit, build it into a tower shape of 15-45 cm and a width of about 40 cm, and put eggs in the pit at the top of the tower to prevent the ground temperature from being too high. The eggs are cooked, or the eggs are submerged by a sudden rise in water.

Although the flamingos have seen the nests built for them, they have no plans to use them yet. It may take a while to adjust.

A tourist asked: "I remember watching a video of a flamingo, a large group of them walked briskly in one direction in the water, shaking their heads as they walked!"

Fang Ye said with a smile: "It's a coincidence that the English name of flamingos is flamingo, flamingo, which is the same as the Spanish flamenco dance, and dances with the same passion. This behavior usually occurs during courtship. The peak of the season!"

Lin Hao said with great regret: "Oh, it's a pity, I'm going back to school to defend soon, I can't see them dancing flamenco!"

Dawu patted him on the shoulder: "It's okay, what's the fun, I'll take a video and send it to the group."

Lin Hao: "Okay, thank you!"

That said, but watching the video is definitely not better than watching it in person.

Let's just say that the shocking scene of these big flamingos waving their heads and singing together, standing here in person, watching them spread from a few waving their heads to a whole, listening to this kind of other noise being covered up by the noise, my heart is incomparably amazed and shocked. And with the magic, how much can a video deliver?

And come to the zoo to see animals, as long as the environment is rich and there are various enrichments, they can show very rich behaviors and are full of uncertainty. This sense of uncertainty is also a kind of surprise.

There are also popular science exhibition cards and explanations from breeders, which can learn more about animals, which is also very interesting.

Lily remembered something and warned: "Dawu, the video of my head being bitten by a pelican is not allowed to be posted in the group! Hurry up and delete it!"

Dawu said "hehe": "Hey, it's better to be happy when you are alone, and everyone is happy when you watch it together!"

Lily got angry and raised her fist: "Looking for a fight!"