canthey do when the wind blows ? Topple over, you would say.But they never do that. They stand as firmly as you do on yourtwo feet and much shorter limbs. When the flamingo makes a nest he scoops it out of a high hillof mud, because of his long limbs. He sits across it as if it were athree-legged…
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