Saturday 20 June 2009

Baby flamingos 'scared of pink'

The colour pink is not usually something flamingos would get ruffled about but for a pink sock puppet used to feed some chicks them has left them "terrified", according to keepers at London Zoo.

They are hoping that when the 32-day-old chicks named Little and Large develop their distinctive colour, they will get over their strange aversion.

Alison Brown, 30, a keeper of birds at the zoo, 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."

http://news.uk.msn.com/odd-news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=148067932

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