Shocked with the clip of flamingos pecking at each other's heads for blood, but the real reason is that everyone feels fluttering

If you study hard, you will understand that in nature there is no shortage of very bizarre stories - especially when standing under the human worldview. For example, the way an extremely poisonous puffer fish bulges and spikes or the way they create patterns that look at the "alien" idea .

And recently, there is a clip that also gives the online community the same feeling, even many people find . creepy. It was a sight of two flamingos, one of whom seemed to be . pecking at the other's head, letting the red blood flow out to the young bird's mouth below.

The video was posted on a Facebook page called "Science Channel" , with the description that this is a flamingo feeding method . The clip made many people feel very surprised and poignant, because no one thought that flamingos - an iconic bird of romance had a way of raising children . so scary.

Flamingos are the only bird in the world capable of producing milk for their young.

But as stated, nature is a world full of surprises. The Science Channel page later revealed that the red, flowing liquid was actually not blood, but milk !

For those of you who don't know, flamingos are the only bird in the world capable of producing milk for young babies, and it's called the "kite milk" . The reason is that the way of eating flamingos depends very much on the special beak, which when it was born, the beak was not developed. Therefore, young flamingos must eat fluids in the first days of life, forcing both parents to have milk.

It is known that kite milk is rich in protein and fat, secreted from bird kites - a thin film surrounding the extension of the beak wall. With the case in the video above, the upper flamingo (temporarily called the father) has dripped milk on the head of the mother bird, so that the liquid gradually flows into the baby's mouth without any action. "Flamingos can produce kite milk in the digestive system, then spray back to feed the babies" - quoted the explanation on Science Channel.

The video has attracted millions of views and tens of thousands of shares. At first, a lot of people were scared to see this scene. But after the story was unraveled, some people became flabbergasted, thinking it was a beautiful spectacle of nature.