Dads are on duty at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, where a pair of flamingo foster parents are raising a chick together.
Two male flamingos are now first time dads after they hatched an egg together at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.The pair had been sitting on a fake egg earlier this year and, after showing off their parenting skills with the fake egg, care specialists decided to give them a real egg, according to the zoo. The chick, born late last month, is now 'thriving.''The pair has perfected their fatherly duties by alternating brooding responsibilities,' the zoo wrote in a social media post.
The foster dads have been feeding the chick crop 'milk,' which comes from the parents' upper digestive tract. 'Both males and females can feed the chick this way, and even flamingos that are not the parents can act as foster-feeders,' according to the zoo. 'The begging calls the hungry chick makes are believed to stimulate the secretion of the milk.'Feeding chicks can actually impact the color of the parents' feathers.
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