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Why flamingoes stand on one leg
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| 13 August 2009
| Matt Walker
Posted on 08/17/2009 9:50:56 AM PDT by JoeProBono
It is one of the simplest, but most enigmatic mysteries of nature: just why do flamingoes like to stand on one leg? The question is asked by zoo visitors and biologists alike, but while numerous theories abound, no-one has yet provided a definitive explanation. Now after conducting an exhaustive study of captive Caribbean flamingoes, two scientists believe they finally have the answer. Flamingoes stand on one leg to regulate their body temperature, they say.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: flamingo; flamingoes; leg
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To: JoeProBono
...and here I always thought that they had lost one shoe.
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posted on
08/17/2009 9:52:10 AM PDT
by
Batman11
(Chicago, Land of Lincoln who freed the slaves and Land of Obama who enslaved the free.)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
08/17/2009 9:52:40 AM PDT
by
ElayneJ
To: Batman11
I always thought they were afraid of trampling the grass.
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posted on
08/17/2009 9:53:18 AM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(What kind of organization answers the phone if you call a suicide hotline in Gaza City?)
To: Batman11
Aren’t they just drying their nails?
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posted on
08/17/2009 9:53:40 AM PDT
by
Procyon
(To the global warming fanatics the problem is too many people and the solution is genocide.)
To: JoeProBono
How do you know when a family of pink flamingos moves into your neighborhood?
They put plastic illegal aliens in their front yard
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posted on
08/17/2009 9:55:05 AM PDT
by
Dacula
(Evil succeeds when good men do nothing. Lets do something.)
To: Batman11
because if they lifted the other one they would fall down
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posted on
08/17/2009 9:57:38 AM PDT
by
MSgt Smith
(What are tag lines)
To: JoeProBono
Budgerigars, Cockatiels and Parrots also stand on one leg. It is a sign of ill health when they do not.
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posted on
08/17/2009 9:59:26 AM PDT
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: JoeProBono
I just think they’re showing off.
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posted on
08/17/2009 9:59:46 AM PDT
by
Yardstick
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:01:40 AM PDT
by
right way right
(Do not mistake Religion for God.)
To: JoeProBono
Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Flamingo Scientists
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:05:12 AM PDT
by
Vn_survivor_67-68
(CALL CONGRESSCRITTERS TOLL-FREE @ 1-800-965-4701)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:05:38 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: JoeProBono
Had a neighbor who complained constantly about another neighbors boat that they had to look at (never mind the fact that they bought a house with a driveway view.)Any way the neighbors just bristled back and decorated the whole property line in front of the boat with 10 flamingos.
I laughed my ...ss off.
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:06:03 AM PDT
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right way right
(Do not mistake Religion for God.)
To: JoeProBono
Another little known scientific factoid ...
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:06:27 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
To: Batman11
More retarded science, a field I’ve lost total respect for ...
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:07:53 AM PDT
by
Scythian
To: JoeProBono
I coulda told ‘em that for free.
We had parakeets when I was a kid, and at night they’d always stand on one leg and tuck their beak into their back feathers to stay warm.
To: JoeProBono
This year's winner of the
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest in the Detective genre:
She walked into my office on legs as long as one of those long-legged birds that you see in Florida - the pink ones, not the white ones - except that she was standing on both of them, not just one of them, like those birds, the pink ones, and she wasn't wearing pink, but I knew right away that she was trouble, which those birds usually aren't. Eric Rice
Sun Prairie, WI
-PJ
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:11:09 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(This just in... Voting Republican is a Terrorist act!)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:13:37 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Political Junkie Too
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posted on
08/17/2009 10:15:57 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Batman11
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08/17/2009 10:17:05 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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