Flaminglet (a baby flamingo) born at Fresno Chaffee Zoo: 'Couldn't be more excited'

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Fresno Chaffee Zoo has welcomed a caller babe flamingo for the archetypal clip successful 7 years.

“We are thrilled to bits astatine the Fresno Chaffee Zoo, to person not lone our flamingos making nests, laying eggs, but to person our newest edition, our 42nd flamingo added to our flock,” said Beverly Hanson, Zoological Animal Manager for South America astatine the Fresno Chaffee Zoo. “We couldn't beryllium much excited.”

Although lone a fewer inches tall, the achromatic fluffy flaminget is casual to spot. It volition statesman to blend successful with the remainder of the pinkish flock aft a mates of years of eating a beta-carotene affluent diet.

In the meantime, the babe flamingo volition provender connected harvest milk, a regurgitation of highly nutritious reddish liquid sloughed from the lining of the parent’s esophagus. 

Members of the zoo’s flock are presently sitting connected 9 different nests. Staff accidental American Flamingos typically laic 1 ovum per nest and expect up to 9 caller flaminglets successful the coming month.

“It’s truly rewarding to spot radical truthful excited astir this," Hanson said. "We’ve enactment successful a batch of manpower connected the crushed and a batch of hours into research, communicating with different facilities and asking different Flamingo Care Specialists to spot what they were doing to person a palmy nesting season.”

Staff astatine Fresno Chaffee Zoo proceed to enactment to amended flamingo numbers astatine the zoo.