You Have Absolutely No Idea How Metal A Flamingo Is

When I was a kid, you couldn’t go online without seeing jokes about how tough Chuck Norris was. Think: “the flu gets a Chuck Norris shot every year”, “Chuck Norris is the reason Waldo’s in hiding,” etc. 

But maybe those memes should have been made about flamingos instead.

I recently learned (to my surprise) that the pretty pink creatures are so hardcore, they’re sometimes considered the “extremophile” of the bird world. 

HuffPost UK spoke to Dr Paul Rose – author of The Behavioural Biolog...