Underwater Feeding

I thought I’d share a video I came across today which is kinda cute – it looked like a scene from a Pixar movie. It shows flamingos dipping their heads into water to feed. 

FYI, flamingos (Order: Phoenicopteriformes; Family: Phoenicopteridae) live in lagoons or large, shallow lakes. These bodies of water may be quite salty or caustic, too much so for most other animals. In some lakes, their only animal "neighbors" are algae, diatoms, and small crustaceans. That works in the flamingo's favor, as the birds dine on these small creatures! 

As described by the San Diego Zoo in California, US, "these pretty pink birds feed by sucking in water and mud at the front of their bills, then pumping it out at the sides. Briny plates called lamellae act like tiny filters, trapping shrimp and other small water creatures for the flamingos to eat". 

The said clip:

 

Liverpool defeated Crystal Palace 3-0 on Saturday to continue their unbeaten run in the EPL. 

Sadio Mane pounced on a rebound from Mohamed Salah's header from a corner to reach his century for the club in the forty-third minute – and becoming the first player in Premier League history to score in nine consecutive games against a single opposition. 

Salah doubled their lead in the seventy-eighth minute when he smashed home a flick-on from a corner, before Naby Keita's left-footed volley punched the back of the net eleven minutes later to seal victory.

Jurgen Klopp summed up Liverpool's tricky afternoon after full-time by labelling the performance "one of the most hard-fought 3-0s" he had ever seen, and that is indicative that the result at Anfield did not tell the full story. 

With 13 points collected in five matches, Liverpool have recorded four wins and one draw in the league this season.