My pink flamingo jewelry is perfect for the “flamingo collector” in the group. All of us have at least one, and maybe more! (collectors, that is.)
What is the deal with flamingos, anyway? There seems to be a very large number of women, loosely related by a common interest in flamingos as a joke. I’ve heard of people filling up their friend’s yards with flamingos on a significant birthday (like their 40th, which I guess seems old to some people.)
Here is an interesting flamingo fact: Flamingos get their food from the brackish water they inhabit by the use of a filtering method similar to the one used by the blue whale! The upper and lower beak is fringed with bristles that trap small particles when the flamingo sucks in the water.
Another interesting piece of information about this beautiful bird is that the pink color is due to their diet, which is rich in a pigment called carotenoids. It’s found in Brine shrimp and other things the flamingo consumes. When captive flamingos are fed an artificial diet lacking this pigment, the pink color gradually fades. Flamingos in zoos are given carotenoids to keep them in the pink!
I hope you enjoy my little collection of pink flamingo jewelry, and if you are a member of the great pink flamingo female conspiracy, perhaps you can find a good use for some of these. |
