Wild populations of a bird with bright pink feathers with “flaming” in its name are resurgent in Florida, a state whose government in recent years has tried to combat the acceptance of homosexuality through public policies such as the infamous “Don’t Say Gay” law, NBC Miami reports.
Miami Zoo expert Dr Frank Ridgely says it’s no accident given decades of conservation efforts. “We have several places that are national parks and preserves, or waterways that have undergone extensive restoration, and certainly Everglades restoration efforts. We want to probably credit that, and that gets the result of all this freshwater flow that’s coming back to the South that everyone’s been working on for so long… the flamingo is likely a success story of that,” said Ridgely.
But it all will ultimately come down to numbers as Ridgely says, and we shit you not, that “they usually won’t breed unless at least 30 other flamingos are looking at them.”