Furthermore, the way a flamingo jerks its head straight upward from the water creates a vortex along the vertical axis. Its beak chattering, in which it opens and shuts its lower beak at a rate of ...

Flamingos look graceful, but when it's time to eat, they're very silly. "All of their feeding behavior is so weird," says Steven Whitfield, the director of terrestrial and wetlands conservation at ...

Nashville Zoo flamingos reveal the oddball birds generate many types of vortices to eat. The swirls could be an inspiration to human engineers.

The feeding behavior begins with the feet, Ortega Jiménez said. If you look at a flamingo in very shallow water, you can often see its dancing-in-place or circular dancing behavior.

A Caribbean flamingo egg has hatched at a Cornish wildlife sanctuary. Curators at Paradise Park in Hayle said the chick, ...

Riddle us this: Which animal is pink, curved beaked and a master of the physics required to create water tornadoes? If you guessed flamingos, you're right. New research out this month in the ...