Skytrax has released its annual ranking of the world's best airports — and if you're a frequent flyer it may come as little surprise that none in the US made the top 20.
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Visitors to the Denver Zoo will quickly find out that the flamingos are local celebrities. Collectively, the 70 American and Chilean flamingos are known as flockstars and they’re each named after famous musicians. But recently, one of the zoo’s most endearing flamingos, Amott (named after Guitarist Michael Amott, a heavy metal rocker out of Sweden), gained some new fans far and wide after going viral on TikTok for hugging zoo guests.
Amott approaches a few zoo visitors, retracting his neck into an S-shape, and snuggling into them. The video of Amott’s adorable crowd has been taken down, but there’s another TikTok video of flamingo hugs:
Flamingo hugs aren’t a regularly scheduled interaction at the zoo. However, zookeepers during the spring and summer do take the flamingos for occasional walks around the zoo grounds so you might be lucky to see one of them graciously walking among zoo-goers.
It’s completely up to the flamingos if they want to participate in the walk, explains Jake Kubié, communications director for the Denver Zoo. As soon as the gate opens, some will start strutting their stuff while others are more reserved and will hang back.
Just like introverts and extroverts, the flamingos, too, have different personalities.
“Amott, the one from the video, loves hugs and will snuggle up with people,” Kubié says. “Some others are more stand-offish.”
The resident flamingo’s names read like a music hall of fame—there’s Swift, Legend, Jonas, Slash, Denver, and Diamond to name a few. And, just like rockstars, the Denver Zoo’s flamingos are no strangers to publicity! In fact, before the hugging flamingo was trending on on TikTok, the zoo’s flamingos were spotlighted during Pride Month.
Beginning in 2014, a Chilean flamingo named Lance Bass and an American flamingo named Freddie Mercury partnered up and were in a same-sex relationship. They took part in mating rituals like head flagging and marching and the zoo knew things were serious when they built a nest together. The lovebirds eventually uncoupled back in 2020.
If you’re inspired to see the flamingos for yourself, you can find them in their new habitat at the Denver Zoo. The space is inspired by the Andean Highlands. Visitors can get up-close views of the flamboyance (which is the term for a group of flamingos!) at the habitat, which has wading pools and nesting islands.
The zoo is home to two species of flamingos, and you can tell them apart by the color of their feathers. The American ones that have the brighter pink feathers and are from coastal Caribbean areas like the Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Meanwhile, the Chilean flamingos’ feathers are white to light pink, and they're from the Andean regions of Chile, Argentina, Peru,
Skytrax has released its annual ranking of the world's best airports — and if you're a frequent flyer it may come as little surprise that none in the US made the top 20.
In a mountain town about three hours outside of Mexico City, I sat on the floor of a thatched-roof palapa with blankets wrapped around me as a facilitator (both a researcher and medicine woman) sang soothing chants. A few hours earlier, I had declared my intention for our ayahuasca journey—that I want to live a big, meaningful, impactful life and am willing to release anything that does not serve that vision. By the end of the ceremony, where I took about three cups of the brew during the six hours between sunset and dawn, the message I received was that life is meaningless—that I might as well do whatever I want while I’m here.
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