Sometimes I find an article in the paper and I think...I have to pass this bit of information on....this is one of those articles...more of my DAM News...
DALLAS ZOOLOGISTS ARE FINDING THAT CAPTIVE FLAMINGOS PLAY THE MATING GAME BY SOME PRETTY WILD RULES.....
The Dallas Zoo is discovering things you might or might not want to know....I wanted to know this..Captive flamingos usually mate for life..but they also flock together in some very interesting ways..
They
mate up by two males pairing up some times two females pairing up..They are known to have threesomes and also foursomes..They are not to picky..Zoologist Jeanette Boylan said "the male-male pairs tend to be good fathers." "They are very attentive."..Since flamingos in captivity have problems getting to reproduce this led to the research of the mating habits of flamingos..Captive flamingos have a distinct hierarchy:
1. Male-male pairs
2. Male-female pairs
3. Female-female pairs
4. Single males
5. Single females
They have a complex mating dance that sometimes ends in an eruption of avian indulgence. They usually start out with 'head flagging,' where all the members of the flock, male and female, stand up with their necks stretched towards and wag their head back and forth very fast..That will lead to a 'wing salute,' where they all open their wings very wide to show the black feathers on the underside. Then they may march in unison or perform an "inverted wing salute,' where the birds push their wings back behind them almost like they're at Gold's gym working on their triceps. But no matter what they do ...it all ends up the same way...A gigantic flamingo sex orgy where all the birds start mating with their chosen one or ones at the same time.. I bet when there are thousands of them going at it..it's a very beautiful sight.But with committed same-sex
pairs, which happens more often in captivity than in the wild, because of the small flocks, the mating doesn't end up quite like it is supposed to with the birth of baby flamingos. Couples will go to extremes to get babies to raise.A Female might chippy with a male outside her pairing, then bring up the baby with her girlfriend. Males will steal a heterosexual couple's egg and raise it as their own. They get away with stealing the eggs by sheer force of number as there are more male-male in captivity then in the wild. Trios and quartets are rare and only seem to form under specific circumstances in captivity.A male-female-female trio might form when a second female joins an established heterosexual pair or a female attracts a male who alread
y has another pairing. All sorts of pairings can happen in most zoos...which leads to the fact that a baby flamingo hasn't been born at the Dallas zoo since 1989...Now I'm not saying we should steal each other's baby's or have a baby with someone so you can take it to be with your other mate...but I don't see any thing wrong with a little flamingo hanky panky...
First there was muskrat love..now we have flamingo love...
fuckme till I spread my wings and wag my head...
