Gergana Vasileva plus

Very cool, indeed! and very fast :D
To catch one you must have reflexes of a flamingo ;)

Yes, the shrimps accumulate carotenoids which than go in flamingos feathers. Here are some good answers of your interesting questions, Precious:

http://www.africanconservation.org/dcforum/DCForumID16/8.html

That is one of our investigations, to see how the parasites change the behaviour of the shrimps. They start to swim closer to the surface, becoming more red (more carotenoids prevent them from the sunlight) and ... like this, they become better seen from the birds! TATADAAAA - voila! The parasites catch the poor bird (the final host)! :D

Very interesting!!! :D

Thank you very much for the link Geri ((:

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Yes! Very interesting! Thank you, Geri! :-)))

I am so happy to hear you are interested in these tiny, funny animals and their "internal" life ;) Yes, I am grateful I have this inetesting job I like it so much and happy to have such colleagues and friends like you close to me. It's good idea to post some more microscopic photos of nice parasites as well :D
LoL! :****)

yeeeeeeeee!!! I second that :D