PHOENICOPTERIFORMESPHOENICOPTERIFORMES
| Mexico 1980 | Angola 1999 | Angola 1999 | Angola 1999 |
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| Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber (Phoenicopteridae) |
Lesser Flamingo Phoenicopterus minor (Phoenicopteridae) |
Lesser Flamingo Phoenicopterus minor (Phoenicopteridae) |
Lesser Flamingo Phoenicopterus minor (Phoenicopteridae) |
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| Australian Flamingo Phoenicopterus eyrensis (Phoenicopteridae) (PHOENICOPTERIFORMES) |
It is said that the name called Flamingo comes from flame (flamma) of the Latin and the Spanish flamenco. It is related to words imaged both by a vivid color of the body. The figure which a large crowd colors the sky red, and fly of Flamingo is the best part. Because a red pigment of the carotene system is included in an alga growing in the saline lake which is bait of Flamingo as for this color of the body vivid brightly, it is born. In the breeding season, it becomes the decisive factor whether or not it is got a partner to have this vivid color of the body. As for Australian Flamingo, as for the length, as for 150cm, Greater Flamingo and Lesser Flamingo, the each length is 130cm, around 80cm with a current animal with an animal of the Oligocene 3,800,000,000 years ago from 2,300,000,000 years when a fossil was discovered in Lake Australian air.
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