Turns out, the lake’s toxic waters provide a safe haven from predators, making it perfect flamingo flocking grounds. Despite so many birds dying in Lake Natron, there is a particular species flourishing.
Kind of like that one time in the office. 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. In 2013, wildlife photographer Nick Brandt was one of the first to document this phenomenon. Talk about killing two birds with one stone!
Any birds that happen to take a dive and don’t make it out become calcified in a hardened, stonelike husk. The whole chemical composition is extremely alkaline, with pH levels of 10.5 close to matching ammonia (NH3). Releasing into the water, this mix of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate were key ingredients once used in Egyptian mummification, creating the perfect preservative in lake form. If you plan to visit during the wet season, you may have to consider that roads and trails to and around the Lake may be more difficult to traverse, and this could affect the convenience and full availability of activities.The volcano spews a rare kind of lava rich in sodium (Na) and potassium carbonate (K2CO3), called Natrocarbonatite, or Natron for short. The weather at Lake Natron is primarily hot and mostly dry, and the coolest months to vist are June through August. If you are intrigued about this mysterious Lake take a visit to Arusha Tanzania which is on the Eastern part of Africa. This is not the same case as Lot’s wife who lloked back and was turned into a pillar of salt but instead the lake slowly preserves the unfortunate dead animals through calcification due to the lakes high alkalinity. So with all that information, my conclusion is that Lake Natron does not kill its animals immediately after they touch the deadly waters.
Many were shocked He claims to have discovered dead birds and bats in the LakeIt is also important to know that the water temperatures can rise to as high as 41 degrees Celcius. The water in Lake Natron has a PH of 10.5 and can burn animals or human beings who get into contact with it however There have been many flourishing birds seen on the waters of the Lake, in fact, flamingos use the shallow part of the waters as a breeding ground so when famous photographer Nick Brant released haunting photographs of the deadly Lake in his book “Across the Ravaged Land which showed animals turning into rocks after touching the waters.
Lake Natron is situated in Arusha Tanzania and is known to some as the deadly lake that turns animals into stones. Today we will be looking at the mysterious Lake Natron.
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