Editing Flamingo (section)

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[[File:FlamingoMocheLMC.jpg|right|thumb|[[Moche (culture)|Moche]] ceramic depicting flamingo (200 AD). [[Larco Museum]], Lima, Peru]]
* In the Americas, the [[Moche (culture)|Moche]] people of ancient [[Peru]] worshipped nature.<ref>Benson, Elizabeth (1972). ''The Mochica: A Culture of Peru''. New York: Praeger Press.</ref> They placed emphasis on animals, and often depicted flamingos in their art.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Berrin |first1=Katherine |author2=Larco Museum |title=The Spirit of Ancient Peru:Treasures from the Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera |location=New York |publisher=Thames and Hudson |year=1997 |isbn=978-0500018026}}</ref>
* The [[Ancient Egyptian deities|Ancient Egyptian god]] [[Set (deity)|Set]] is depicted with a flamingo head in the ''[[Book of the Faiyum]].''<ref>{{cite book |last=Beinlich |first=Horst |url=https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/2891/1/Beinlich_Faiyum_2013.pdf |title=The Book of the Faiyum |publisher=University of Heidelberg |year=2013 |pages=27–77, esp.38–39 |section=Figure&nbsp;7}}</ref>
* Flamingos are the [[national bird]] of [[the Bahamas]].
* [[Andean]] miners have killed flamingos for their fat, believing that it would cure [[tuberculosis]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/Flamingos/fdeath.html |title=Flamingos |publisher=Seaworld.org |access-date=2013-03-30 |archive-date=10 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120710184747/http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/Flamingos/fdeath.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* In the United States, pink [[plastic flamingo]]s are sometimes used as [[lawn ornament]]s.<ref name=CSM>{{cite web |first=Clayton |last=Collins |title=Backstory: Extinction of an American icon? |work=[[Christian Science Monitor]] |date=2 November 2006 |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1102/p20s01-lihc.html |access-date=9 February 2010}}</ref> They were first designed by [[Don Featherstone (artist)|Don Featherstone]] in 1957.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Price |first=Jennifer |date=1999 |title=The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/41213491 |journal=The American Scholar |volume=68 |issue=2 |pages=5–6 |jstor=41213491 }}</ref> Their popularity was influenced in part by the prevalence of flamingo souvenirs in [[Florida]] along with the Flamingo grand hotel in [[Miami Beach, Florida|Miami Beach]], prompting the correlation of flamingos with style and wealth.<ref name=":0" />