Local financial gossip starting to smell a bit fishy

Everyone knows that flamingos are not naturally pink. They obtain that colour from their diet, which is dominated by tiny crustaceans from their wetland habitats.

What is less well-known is that this steady intake of uncooked shrimp cocktail causes flamingos to emit a particularly foul-smelling effluent, and that any large group of flamingos kept in one place can’t be kept secret for long. Besides, flamingos are really noisy.

Therefore the rumour floating around that a flock of African, or Floridian, or whatever kind of flamingos was stranded at Dubai International Airport appears to have been an apocryphal tale, utter hooey.