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But giant inflatable unicorns are proving less popular with coastguards after a woman was blown out to sea and had to be rescued from one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. She was one of 15 people rescued along the south coast by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in just one evening after their inflatables veered off course. A pink flamingo and a swan were also involved.

Most everyone in the United States has at some point encountered Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories. One short story, “Silver Blaze,” involves a dog that didn’t bark. Spoiler alert: Detective Sherlock Holmes solves the case by realizing a dog didn’t bark because the dog recognized the murderer.Holmes’s legwork is profoundly applicable to disgraced journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s whopper of a Rolling Stone story claiming at least five members of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity chapter at the University of Virginia gang-raped — and punched in celebration — a freshman named Jackie at a party at their frat house on Sept. 28,...

Over the past few years, Testa realized that the famed flamingos were not producing eggs. "Five years I've been waiting for them to do something. I've been watching them," said Testa. Testa decided to take the matter into his own hands, and he became the "flamingo doctor." He decided to place fake eggs around the Flamingos at the park. "When you don't see an egg you say, OK, I'll put a fake egg out there, and maybe somebody will look over and go, 'Oh, OK, we've got to lay eggs,'" said Testa.

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.

A pair of flamingo chicks at London Zoo have been left 'terrified' of the colour pink. The birds, named Little and Large, developed the phobia after being fed using a pink sock puppet. Zoo staff are now hoping they get over their aversion before developing their distinctive colour, reports the Daily Telegraph. Keeper Alison Brown, 30, said: "To try to encourage Little to feed by himself we've been wearing a hand puppet which imitates adult flamingos, but unfortunately he was really terrified of the socks." Young flamingos take up to a year to turn pink, after they shed their grey...

Four Australian teenagers were charged Thursday with attacking an almost blind greater flamingo that is believed to be the oldest bird of its kind in the world, police and zoo officials said. The flamingo's head and beak were injured and it was bleeding from an eye after the attack at Adelaide Zoo that left it in a critical condition, zoo staff said. "The bird arrived at the zoo in 1933 and was a mature bird at that stage," a spokeswoman for the zoo told AFP. "So although we don't know it's exact age it is at least 75 years old...

Oct. 26) -- Eyewitness News has learned that the illness that has plagued the Flamingo hotel and casino is the norovirus. We were the first to tell you about the spreading illness at the hotel. And Tuesday, the health district told us that they've had as many as 250 unconfirmed cases of norovirus -- most were Flamingo employees, and some were guests. The Flamingo says they will fog all the 3,500 rooms in the hotel with an anti-viral chemical. They will also leave a letter in each room telling new guests about the situation. Norovirus is spread by humans, after...

Poisonous gun pellets killed lake flamingos LARNACA (AP) - Cyprus yesterday said it is trying to prevent more deaths of migratory flamingos after dozens of the birds died from eating shotgun pellets. Environment Minister Costas Themistocleous said at least 40 flamingos, which have made the Larnaca Salt Lake their home for the winter, were found dead this week. He said a nearby shooting range will be closed as the birds were found to have died from lead poisoning caused by swallowing shotgun pellets fired into the lake. “An operation has started to try to remove the flamingos from the dangerous...