Risotto rice under threat from flamingoes in north-eastern Italy
The flamingos use their webbed feet to stir up the soil and snatch molluscs, algae or insects from the shallow water, causing collateral damage to rice crops.
Scientists have figured out why flamingos are such weird eaters
"All of their feeding behavior is so weird," says Steven Whitfield, the director of terrestrial and wetlands conservation at the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans, La.