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THE rare three-toed, yellow-legged flamingo, Phoeni-coparrus andinus, the native habitat of which, save probably for coastal winter residence, is in and around saline lakes in the Andean heights of northern South America1, is maintained successfully in the San Diego Zoo, whence freshly expired specimens, and blood from living ones, were made available for our studies. Not long captive from the wild, the birds had been maintained for the quarantine period in the Cologne Zoo before transference to San Diego in late September 1964.
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FOX, D., HOPKINS, T. Exceptional Carotenoid Metabolism in the Andean Flamingo. Nature 206, 301–302 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/206301a0
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