The footage, filmed in India, shows how a flamingo feeds its chick in a terrible way. This is because it looks like he just fought and used enemy blood as food for his child.

The animal seems to feed the puppy with someone else’s blood – Photo: @ParveenKaswan/Twitter/Reproduction/ND

The scene is shared forester on your social networks. The images show a flamingo with a beak above another’s head and oozing red fluid, suggestive of injury. This liquid serves as food for the chick.

Watch the flamingo video:

The method of feeding scared Internet users – Video: @ParveenKaswan/Twitter/Reproduction/ND

Blood is not blood

The truth behind the scenes is much less creepy than the interpretation itself. The moment shows one parent regurgitating the kind of “milk” these birds produce in their crop for their son.

What stands out is how he decides to do it. Instead of pouring the liquid directly into its beak, the flamingo uses the head of another and the liquid drips until it reaches the baby.

“Milk is made up of proteins and fats that make up the lining of the crop, where food is stored until digestion,” Ranger says.

Its pink color is due to the specifics of the diet – Photo: Len / Pexels / Disclosure / ND

Interestingly, these animals get their characteristic pink coloration from carotenoid pigments found in their diet of algae and crustaceans.

However, feeding chicks with milk during the breeding season consumes so many carotenoids that these birds lose their color and their plumage appears almost white.