If no, again my father gets one over on me, the lousy git .
Flamingos are in fact pink because they eat shrimps, which contain a red pigment.
I confess this knowledge causes me some distress, because it reinforces the cartoon view of the universe, which I learned at an early age to distrust. In cartoons, exploding bombs merely blacken your face, a character who runs off a cliff can pinwheel in midair for several seconds before plunging earthward, and if you drink a bottle of red ink you'll turn red. It's honest to God the way the world works. More relevant to this discussion is the fact that carotenoids tend to be a persistent red orange in color. Salmon caught in the wild are orange because of their diet of crustaceans that contain carotenoid.