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This might just look like a flamingo spinning around, but he is really showing off his foraging instincts. He is stamping his feet to scare up any tiny crustaceans, then using his beak to filter out the animals from the water column. Obviously, he’s just practicing here, since there aren’t any crustaceans to be found in this water pan. You can see small pellets of flamingo food that the chicks start tasting at around 5 days old. They won’t eat enough of it to sustain themselves until they are cl