It just occurred to me that flamingos and emperor penguins are literally elemental opposites.
Flamingos raise their young in the middle of a lake of boiling salt as a sort of species-wide "try it if you think you're hard enough" to every predator on the planet, and emperor penguins achieve the same effect by having as their breeding season Antarctica in winter.
If a flamingo and an emperor penguin ever met, the consequences would be unimaginable.
#FlamingoFriday: South Africa has 2 native flamingo species, the Greater Flamingo & Lesser Flamingo; both appear in works by South African expressionist artist Maggie Laubser (1886-1973):
1. Flamingos on the beach, n.d.
2. Flaminke en seilbootjie, 1932
3. Uitsig met boot en flaminke, n.d.
4. Landscape with houses, figure, boats and birds, n.d.