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Flamingos puff up their feathers against the cold as they roost at Laguna Colorada, Bolivia. The variation in temperature between day and night is so extreme that their legs are frozen in a thin layer of ice during the night, which is melted by the sun.
Keywords
- Atacama desert
- Blue
- Bolivia
- Color
- Diurnal variation
- Feathers
- Flamingos
- Ice
- Laguna Colorada
- Orange
- Roost
- Salt lake
- Weird
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