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Mystery of the Flamingo's Pink
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00:05in the equatorial regions of the americas on islands in the caribbean sea the salty marshes
00:13are home to a beautiful and bizarre bird the caribbean flamingo hey it's us the crat brothers
00:21i'm martin i'm chris and we're gonna get an up close and personal look at the amazing
00:26caribbean flamingo by heading to a conservation sanctuary that specializes in water birds
00:33sylvan heights bird park in north carolina this is the unmistakably pink flamingo flamingos love to
00:45stick together they're very social birds that live in flocks or colonies the colonies can get
00:51massive with thousands of flamingos living together flamingos are never far from water
00:58that's because they're wading birds who feed on small plants and animals in the water flamingos
01:05have specialized features that fit their water loving lifestyle the legs of the flamingo are
01:11perfect for wading they're still like it's super thin and long enough so they can walk around in
01:18pretty deep water and i love the neck of the flamingo it's super long too so they can reach
01:25all the way down to their toes so how do flamingos get their food well that's the job of one
01:32of my
01:32favorite flamingo features of all that awesome one-of-a-kind feet flamingos have such cool features
01:41but the big question is why are flamingos pink where does that amazing color come from imagine if we
01:47had the creature powers of the flamingo to find out what if
02:00on adventure with the coolest creatures from the oceans to the trees the brothers crack are going
02:06places you never get to see coming with their creature frames get ready it's the hour we're gonna sing some
02:14peroon the meaning of wild wild place
02:16the trees you never get to see coming with your creatures
02:17the apple
02:17the tree
02:18it's gonna go wild wild
02:21wild
02:21wild
02:21wild
02:26Chitter speed and lizard cock
02:28Dark and flight and land ride
02:44Mystery of the Flamingo's Pink
02:53Aviva, wake up, you gotta see this
02:58Que pasa
03:00Can you believe that pink color?
03:03It's gorgeous, right?
03:04It's amazing, what a beautiful pink
03:08Aviva, you're not even looking at it
03:11The sunrise is that way
03:13Yeah, but the flamingos are that way
03:18Wow
03:26Here they are, Jimmy
03:28This salt marsh is the home of the Caribbean Flamingo
03:32One of six different flamingos in the world
03:35Check out that cool hooked beak
03:38The long S-shaped neck
03:41The brilliant pink feathers
03:43And the legs that
03:45What? There's only one leg?
03:47It's a one-legged flamingo!
03:49Jimmy, it's okay
03:51He has two legs
03:53See?
03:54Flamingos like to stand on one leg
03:57It's efficient because it uses less energy
03:59And they even sleep standing on one leg
04:03Woohoo, check it out
04:05I call it the Flamingo Pose
04:07This takes years to perfect it
04:13And you need more practice
04:17Yeah, this water is salty
04:22Hey, where are you going?
04:25Oh, to her nest
04:26They make them out of mud with a few stones, some straw and feathers
04:31And look
04:32One super cute chick
04:36Hello, little buddy
04:38But he's white
04:39Isn't he supposed to be pink?
04:41And his beak is straight
04:42Are you sure he's a flamingo?
04:45Positive
04:46Those features will come as he grows up
04:48I'm gonna name you
04:51Pinkster
04:52You'll grow into the name
04:55Both the mom and dad work together to raise their chick
04:58Taking care of the egg
05:00Protecting the chick
05:01And feeding them
05:07Really?
05:08What?
05:09I'm hungry
05:09Well, too many chips aren't good for you
05:12Try an apple or something
05:15No thanks
05:16Chips for me
05:18I know
05:19He's a loud muncher
05:24Okay, Aviva
05:25Feather loaded in DNA analyzer
05:27Perfect
05:28That'll give me all the genetic coding I need
05:31To start a flamingo creature power suit
05:34Make sure you put plenty of pink in those suits
05:37Forget the blue and the green this time
05:39For sure
05:40You can't have a flamingo creature power suit without the pink
05:46Pink!
05:52Oh, yes
05:53I do believe I found the perfect source for a fantastic new seasoning
05:58The secret new ingredient is in this salty, briny water
06:02I'll just run some through my purification filter
06:06Add to stir fry
06:09Mmm, perfection
06:11I don't know what kinds of salty goodies are in this water
06:15But I know I'm gonna bottle the stuff and make a lot of moolah
06:21Old Jackie will be jealous
06:28Whoa, Pinkster
06:29You stand on one leg better than me
06:31And you're only a week old
06:33Ooh, here's your mom
06:36Martin, check it out
06:37It's feeding time
06:39Yeah, she makes a milky liquid in her esophagus
06:43And feeds it to her chick
06:44Whoa
06:45That's so cool
06:46Excuse me
06:48Pardon me
06:48Coming through
06:49Excuse us
06:50Uh, excuse us
06:51Sorry to bother you
06:52Don't mean to ruffle any feathers
06:54Guys, we did it!
06:57Flamingo creature power disc
06:59Ready for action!
07:01Yes!
07:02All right!
07:03Is it going to be pink?
07:05Of course!
07:06Woohoo!
07:07Yes!
07:08Me first!
07:11It's mine!
07:12Oh, no!
07:13It's mine!
07:13Got it!
07:14Got it!
07:15Okay, you first
07:17Thanks, bro
07:18Insert flamingo power disc
07:20Touch flamingo
07:22And activate flamingo power!
07:26Flamingo!
07:40Oh, I feel so white!
07:43A white flamingo?
07:45Who ever heard of a white flamingo?
07:48This is a horrible creature power suit malfunction
07:51What happened to the pink?
07:53We've got a creature mystery here, team
07:56The mystery of the flamingo's pink
08:00Hey, flamingo guys
08:02Mind if I join you?
08:03Oh, come on, guys
08:04Aw, okay, so I'm not pink
08:07But everything else is flamingo-y
08:09I got the neck and legs
08:11Ooh, and check this out
08:12Standing on one leg has never been easier
08:16That's because flamingos actually have a locking mechanism in their leg
08:20Check this out!
08:22With this neck, I can hang my head all the way down to the water
08:26Whoa, things look pretty different from down here
08:29And the world is upside down
08:32Oh, put that upside down thing to use, bro
08:35The flamingos are doing their classic upside down feeding
08:39They swing their heads back and forth through the water
08:43As they walk slowly along
08:45This flamingo beak is even built for upside down feeding
08:49It's smaller on the top and bigger on the bottom
08:52The opposite of many bird beaks
08:56Except when upside down, then everything's right side up
09:00Yeah, I think I've got the move down
09:02But, uh, what exactly am I after?
09:05Not sure
09:06Flamingos are filter feeders
09:08So it's something small
09:10But we need to get a closer look
09:13Deploy Miniaturizer!
09:17Miniaturize!
09:20You sure you want to go that mini?
09:22Got to!
09:23To find out what's in here
09:25Watch this dive, bro
09:26Woo-hoo!
09:28Oh!
09:29Uh-oh!
09:30I got a little knotted up here
09:34Oh, wow!
09:36This water is really salty
09:38This mineral-filled water is called brine
09:43Blue-green algae
09:45Not many things can live in water this salty
09:47But this algae can
09:49And brine shrimp!
09:52Hey, guys!
09:53You must love it in here
09:56You pretty much have the place to yourself
09:58Because it's too salty for most fish
10:00And other predators to survive in
10:02Hey, the algae!
10:04Nice little life you got here
10:05Okay, quick scan and...
10:08Shrimpy Chris to Aviva
10:10Come in, Aviva!
10:11Aviva here!
10:12Go, Shrimpy Chris!
10:14I'm sending scans of the creatures I found here
10:16Algae and shrimp
10:18You can...
10:19Look out!
10:20Yeah!
10:20Feeding flamingos!
10:22They're going after the algae and the brine shrimp
10:24Uh-oh!
10:25We're getting sucked in!
10:26Whoa!
10:28He got us into his beak by moving his tongue back and forth quickly
10:32And creating a suction
10:35Whoa!
10:36Up we go!
10:38Look at that tongue!
10:41Whoa!
10:43The little creatures get pushed towards the outside of the beak
10:46And get caught in hair-like plates called lamellet
10:49Oh no!
10:50Oh no!
10:50He's about to swallow!
10:52Gotta get out of here!
10:55Satan!
10:57Woo!
10:57Just missed being a flamingo snack
11:00All right, I'm out of here!
11:02See ya!
11:06Did you get that, Martin?
11:08Got all that, dude!
11:09But, uh, now, if they could only get out of this knot!
11:13I can help!
11:14Uh-oh!
11:16Uh-oh!
11:16It's...
11:16It's...
11:16Really...
11:17Uh...
11:18Exciting!
11:20Uh-oh!
11:21Here we go!
11:22Whoa!
11:23Yes!
11:24Thanks, Jimmy!
11:26Uh-oh!
11:27Don't mention it!
11:28Okay, now, to try out the old filter system
11:31Ready, Pinkster?
11:33Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth
11:39Hey, you can even stomp the ground to stir up more shrimp from the mud?
11:44Let me give it a try
11:46Like this!
11:48Ooh, this is not as easy as it looks!
11:52Uh-oh!
11:54Oh-oh!
11:57Time to test the water
11:58Adding now, and...
12:01Analyze
12:03Aviva!
12:04Look at this!
12:04I found something!
12:06What is it?
12:08That's the formula for carotenoids
12:10And the algae and brine shrimp have super high levels of this
12:14Carotenoids?
12:15Sounds like what you get when you cross a carrot with an asteroid
12:18Not exactly!
12:20It's a type of pigment, something responsible for color
12:22And the flamingos' natural foods are loaded with the stuff
12:26Oh!
12:28That sounds like more than a coincidence
12:30And look, if I isolate the carotenoids in a solution
12:35Pink!
12:36A pinkish pigment!
12:38We just might be on to something here
12:41Hey, Martin!
12:42How's the feeding going?
12:44Well, working on it
12:45Well, pick up the pace
12:47That suit needs to absorb brine shrimp
12:49Lots of them!
12:51Brine shrimp?
12:52Really?
12:52Yeah!
12:53They just might be the secret to the mystery of the flamingos' pinks
12:57Okay, Pinkster
12:58Let's get flamingo-ing!
13:05I am a brine shrimp collecting machine
13:13Why are you slowing down?
13:15Keep going!
13:16Can I stop now?
13:18We need more shrimp
13:19Gotta get those carotenoids
13:21More shrimp
13:24Oh, shrimp
13:28Must eat shrimp
13:32Must eat shrimp
13:36Mmm, you're doing good
13:38Keep going, Martin
13:42So many shrimp, I'm stuffed
13:44Martin, your face!
13:46It's pink!
13:48Pink?
13:48Really?
13:49It worked!
13:51My feathers are pink!
13:53Hooray!
13:54I'm pink, you're pink
13:56We're all pink!
13:57Pink, pink, pink, pink, pink!
14:00Awesome!
14:01Wow!
14:02The pink color really does come from what the flamingo eats
14:05Exactly!
14:07What you eat is really important, Jimmy
14:09So flamingos need to eat right to stay healthy and pink
14:13For them, that means brine shrimp
14:16Algae
14:17Things with carotenoids, of course
14:20And people need to eat right to stay healthy, too
14:25So easy on the junk food
14:26Hey, I have something important to do
14:29You are what you eat!
14:31Flamingos are proof!
14:36Oh, yeah!
14:38Woo-hoo!
14:39Loop-de-loop, brine shrimp style!
14:42Ha-ha-ha-ha!
14:42So, you guys are the secret to the flamingos' pink
14:46Mystery solved!
14:48I love you guys
14:51I do, too, Chris
14:52They deserve to have a creature power suit built in their honor
14:55Sure do!
14:56Look at all their feathery legs!
14:59Oh, they're great for swimming through the water
15:01And for tickling, too!
15:03Ha-ha-ha!
15:04Okay!
15:05Okay, I give!
15:06I give!
15:07Oh!
15:09And they have eyes on stalks
15:11Kind of like lobsters
15:13Some people call these guys sea monkeys
15:15But they don't look like monkeys at all
15:17Ha-ha-ha!
15:19No, they don't
15:20At all
15:21Okay, I'm grabbing some design tablets
15:23Don't move
15:25Not going anywhere, Aviva
15:27I'm hanging with these guys for a while
15:29A brine shrimp holiday
15:38Huh?
15:39Whoa!
15:45Alright, so, let's get started on this brine shrimp suit
15:49Chris?
15:50Chris?
15:51Hmm
15:52Oh, well, at least you guys stuck around
15:54Ah!
15:55Hang on, guys!
15:56I think we got sucked into some kind of tube!
16:00Ah!
16:01But where does it lead to?
16:04He-he-he
16:05Yes!
16:06Yes!
16:07The perfect briney broth!
16:10Oh, no!
16:11Gourmand!
16:12What is he up to?
16:14I want whatever tasty morsels and minerals are in this water
16:19Let the filters run day and night!
16:22He-he-he
16:23What?
16:25No!
16:26No!
16:27No!
16:28No!
16:35No!
17:01No!
17:01Through the filter systems and into the jar
17:05My briny crop, concentrate how delicious you are
17:09Easy to use, just add water and then add it to any meal
17:14Then do it again
17:21Uh-oh
17:26Can't hang on any longer
17:37Full of tasty morsels
17:41Morsels? For you? No way
17:43For flamingos, baby, but not you
17:47Flamingos need their natural food, their nourishment
17:50You guys are part of the natural order
17:53And need to be living free and in the wild
17:55Shrimpy Chris to Tortuga, come in, Tortuga
17:58It's Chris here
18:00Oh, hey, bro!
18:01Done with your brine shrimp holiday?
18:04We've got trouble with gourmand
18:06And the gourmand trouble is he's taking all the shrimp
18:09We've got trouble with the flamingos too
18:12They're white
18:13Ugh, double whammy
18:16Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
18:18I think we're all thinking the same thing
18:20The flamingos aren't getting the nourishment they need
18:23Because gourmand is taking all the shrimp
18:26Without the shrimp, we lose our pink
18:29We need a plan
18:30Let's all huddle
18:35There, loaded and ready to go
18:40Oh no, he's gonna take off
18:42Where are they?
18:44Where are they?
18:46Where are they?
18:46Not so fast, gourmand
18:47You?
18:48Yeah, me and my flamingos
18:50Flamingoes
18:51You can't take all the brine shrimp
18:54Brine shrimp?
18:56Is that what's in the water?
18:57Among other things
18:59You can't take them
19:00The flamingos need those brine shrimp too
19:03Flamingos?
19:04Those aren't flamingos
19:06They're not even pink
19:07Exactly
19:08Because you took away the food that makes the flamingos pink
19:14Food that makes them pink
19:16That's a good one
19:17Ridiculous
19:20What's that?
19:21Look
19:21There's a pink gorilla
19:23What?
19:24Where?
19:25Wait, I don't see it
19:27I think he ate your shrimp
19:36He obviously doesn't know about carotenoids
19:39After him, guys
19:43Even with the long legs and neck
19:46Flamingos are awesome flyers
19:48Come on, let's keep up with them, guys
19:51Huh?
19:55So they think they can catch me
19:57I can outfly those skinny birds
20:02With our plan, Aviva
20:04Gourmand's trying to make a getaway
20:07Undone
20:07Printing disc now
20:11Brian shrimp disc ready for teleportation
20:14Jimmy, catch
20:17Energize
20:17And stop it
20:22Yes
20:23Insert brine shrimp power disc
20:26Touch brine shrimp
20:27Hey, that's easy
20:29And activate brine shrimp power
20:47Oh-ho
20:48Shrimpy Chris isn't so shrimpy anymore
20:50Huh?
20:52Autopilot?
20:53Oh
20:53What's going on here?
20:55What are you?
20:57A brine shrimp
20:58The ones captured in your briney broth concentrate
21:02Huh?
21:03Well, no one said they had to look good to taste good
21:07Now, get off my plane, you little shrimp
21:10Well, I do
21:11But I'm taking my friends
21:15Oh, no, you don't
21:19Incoming
21:20Get ready to catch, guys
21:23Got it, Chris
21:25Use your necks
21:26Yeah
21:27Woo-hoo
21:28Way to flumming go
21:31Keep that coming, brother
21:32Other way, bro
21:34Gotcha
21:34Oh, not long
21:36Frying shrimp legs tickle
21:42Heads up
21:44Yeah, nice one, gang
21:47Oops
21:48Whoops
21:48Ha-ha-ha-ha
21:51Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
21:57Ha-ha-ha
21:57Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
21:58Ha-ha-ha
21:59Last ones
22:01Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
22:03nothing to tickle with now
22:04Uh-oh
22:05Never underestimate a brine shrimp
22:08Yeah
22:10Feather arm tickle power
22:11All ticklers engaged
22:16I'll give, I'll give
22:17I told you
22:19You never underestimate the best tickle arms on the planet
22:22See you, Gourmand
22:25I'll get you next time, wild crab crew time
22:33Thanks, Martin
22:34No problem, Chris
22:36Back to the salt part
22:41Well, that's a creature mission accomplished
22:44All the brine shrimp are safely back home in the salt marsh
22:48And the flamingos have their healthy food source back
22:51We're pink again
22:55Pinkster and all the chicks have nutritious food to grow up healthy, strong, and pink
23:00And I ditch the chips for a whole bunch of foods that are healthy for a human body
23:08Gotta give my body what it needs
23:10That's great, Jimmy
23:11Hey, I just made a few fun adjustments to the programming of Martin's suit
23:16Try some, Martin
23:17Oh, okay
23:18How about grapes?
23:23Wow, cool
23:25Check this out
23:28Like that one, bro?
23:30Sure do
23:31That's the best one yet
23:34Well, it's just a fun way to show what the flamingos taught us
23:39You are what you eat
23:41We're the blueberries
23:45So flamingos get that amazing pink color from the food they eat
23:50And that special beak gives them the amazing creature power of filter feeding
23:56So flamingos can collect tiny shrimp and algae from the water
24:00Oh, I love this awesome hooked beak of the flamingo
24:04And this is a good time to get a close look at those lamellae
24:09Those little plate-like filters that you can see right on the edges of the beak
24:14Check it out
24:15This is the filter feeding action of the flamingo
24:19They move their heads side to side as they move their tongue rapidly, rapidly in their beak
24:25You can see if you look at his chin, that tongue action moving
24:29And that pulls water in and out through the filters
24:34Collecting the little brine shrimp, the little algae, all the little creatures in the water
24:40There are no tiny shrimp or algae in my hair
24:44I promise you
24:48They're so small you can hardly see them
24:51But tiny creatures in the water, like brine shrimp and algae
24:55Are the reason for the flamingo's pink color
24:58That's because brine shrimp and algae have a special pigment called carotenoids
25:04And when flamingos eat a lot of carotenoids, their feathers turn pink
25:08Without the carotenoids, a flamingo's feathers would be white
25:13The adults, that is
25:15These are lesser flamingo chicks
25:18About five weeks old and very cute, kind of funny looking
25:22And no pink
25:24Yeah, as they grow up, their pink color will come in more and more with each new set of feathers
25:31Until they're perfectly pink as adults
25:33Now they are getting some of the carotenoids from the crop milk that their parents are feeding them
25:38But it takes a long time for the flamingos to turn pink
25:43Yeah, they are growing fast
25:45Come on guys, let's go
25:47This way
25:49Let's go for a walk
25:51Keep on creature adventuring
25:53We'll see you on the creature trail
25:54That's right, come on
25:56Come on buddy, catch up