Let's comb the crowd and pick one out

"On our block all of the guys call her flamingo
Cause her hair glows like the sun
And her eyes can light the sky
When she walks she moves so fine like a flamingo"
(Manfred Mann)

In the continuing series 'Do these animals have teeth?', today we discuss the flamingo; pretty in pink.

Well... when they're young, they must have at least one, because the chick breaks its own shell with its egg tooth.

A 121 million year old fossilized egg, complete with well-developed embryo, was discovered in northeastern China in 2004. This bird has no egg tooth, indicating that they are a more recent innovation. Prior to the development of the egg tooth, baby birds likely used sharp claws to break through their shells

On the Internet they say that grown up flamingos have comblike 'teeth', and because the word is between apostrophs, I doubt it, if we could crown them.... There are 23 to the inch in Andean flamingos and 54 to the inch in James flamingos. The poor Chilean flamingo, however, only has around 13 teeth to the inch.

Human beings have 32 teeth, but not to the inch! If they did, one could really speak of crowded teeth!