Pink Animals
If you thought that purple animals were crazy, get ready for these colorful pink animals! The flamingo isn’t the only animal that’s pink. There are pink reptiles, pink beetles, pink fish, pink doves and even pink praying mantises. And even very strange animals, like the sea pen - a kind of anthozoa. Our favorite is the agama. If it had a red head, it’d look a little like Spiderman. Find out more after the pictures! We also love birds with pink plumage, especially the cute little pink robin.
Pink Reptiles
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama lives in Tanzania, Kenya and Rwanda and can do something that even Spiderman can’t do: change color. If a male feels threatened, he is gray or brown. And those are his night-time colors too. But once he’s warmed up in the sun, his colors shine bright and bold. That’s what agama females like to see. However, only the dominant male (the leader) has such bright colors. Females have plain coloring, like subordinate males.
Pink Birds
The pink robin is a small bird, about as big as a sparrow. But only the males have such eye-catching pink plumage on their chests. They use this bright color to draw attention to themselves. The “ladies” have gray-brown plumage.
And one more thing about pink birds: doves aren’t always gray. We were surprised to discover doves as colorful as a rainbow! They live in Polynesia (somewhere between Australia and Mexico). Their names are also pretty cute, like the dwarf fruit dove. It belongs to the fruit dove family like the pigeon in the photo gallery.
Pink Mammals
Not only pigs are pink! There is one animal that we know mainly with gray color: the dolphin. River dolphins, however, are pink. It is an adaptation to their habitat.
Pink Amphibians
Axolotls are small amphibians. In their albino form, they are pink.
Pink Insects
The oblong-winged katydid Amblycorypha oblongifolia is usually green, but can also be pink or orange. It’s nothing to do with their gender, age or surroundings - it’s simply in their genes. The insects lack the green pigment but have lots of pink (or orange) pigment to make up for it.
It is named like an exotic flower and looks the same! The orchid mantis lives mainly on flowers (not on frogs, as in the picture ;)), and are therefore often as delicate and beautifully colored as the flowers.
Pink Fish
If the animal’s habitat is pink. The paperfish lives in coral reefs that are often pink in color. Should the environment change, so do he. It sheds its skin every 14 days and can then change its color.
Pink Anthozoa
Sea pens look more like plants than animals. But they are animals - they’re a kind of anthozoa. This word comes from the Greek for “flower animals” - isn’t that charming? Sea pens grow to around 6-8 inches (15-20 cm) long and have petal-like arms that they can retract. They are mostly found in shallow tropical waters, where their pink color is easily seen. Here, they use their feet to burrow into the ground.
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