The chemicals in the water burn the skin and the eyes. The alkaline waters of Lake Natron can reach a pH level (a measure of how acidic water is it ranges from 0 to 14) as high as 12, while life generally prefers a pH level closer to 7. Reanimating these creatures makes it seem as if the lake had somehow seized them, like a wicked witch. Even though the colorful surface can be very charming, it’s a fatal trap for most animals. Perhaps part of what makes it seem so deeply eerie is the fact that artist Nick Brant (who took these haunting photos) placed the animal carcasses back into lifelike positions, after finding them. It’s not the lake of death, in other words. It is just because few bird species can’t tolerate the alkaline water and get dead in the shallow lake. Lake Natron is a salt lake located in northern Tanzania, close to the Kenyan border, in the eastern branch of Africas Great Rift Valley.
The most animals can’t handle the salty water of this alkaline lake and it is believed this Tanzania Lake Turns Animals to stone. Brandt noticed that the dead animals had chalky deposits of sodium carbonate outlined on their bodies that created a sharp relief. These dead animals included birds and bats. He theorized, since the lake is so mirror-like and reflective, the birds must have flown right into it. He discovered several stone birds and other unlucky animals in the dry season when the water had receded.
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In fact, Lake Natron’s alkaline water support a thriving ecosystem of salt marshes, freshwater wetlands, flamingos and other wetland birds, tilapia and the algae on which large flocks of flamingos feed.” The alkaline lake has alkalinity between pH 9 and pH 10.5. Nick found a series of dead animals washed up along the shorelines of the lake. Talk about killing two birds with one stone In 2013, wildlife photographer Nick Brandt was one of the first to document this phenomenon. “The alkaline water in Lake Natron has a pH as high as 10.5 and is so caustic it can burn the skin and eyes of animals that aren’t adapted to it.” But “Despite some media reports, the animals didn’t simply turn to stone and die after coming into contact with the lake’s water. The other animals that can be spotted on the shores of Lake Natron includes the zebra, ostrich, fringed, eared Oryx, gazelles, lesser kudu as well as the golden. Discovery News wants to correct what seems to be an assumption that the lake somehow, instantly, turns the animals into stone. It turns animals to stone In the northern region of Arusha close to the Kenyan border lies Tanzania’s Lake Natron. Image from Discovery News, taken by Nick BrandtĬalcified animals from the Lake of Natron in Tanzania have been capturing media attention over the past several days. As beautiful as this lake appears, it is as dangerous.
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