A pair of flamingos have become first-time parents at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park after hatching an egg together. And they’re both dads. The male foster parents — both in their 40s — are raising one ...

It is one of the world’s most spectacular sights – huge flocks or “flamboyances” of flamingos around East Africa’s lakes – as seen in the film Out of Africa or David Attenborough’s A Perfect Planet.

Lesser flamingos are a species found in sub-Saharan Africa and western India and are considered near threatened, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Their numbers in the ...