Thanks to the horny protective layer on the legs and beak, the flamingos often manage to survive the Natron lake. No, they are not the men and much less the pigeons of the squares, but the pink flamingos. # The invincible species that survives the hellish lake Credits: NatronĮveryone thinks that this is the infernal lake or the lake of death, but a species of animal manages to survive the chemical composition of Lake Natron. This is how when animals, especially bats and birds, touch the water of Lake Tanzania, the minerals inside begin to turn them into stone, trapping them in the position they took before they touched the cursed lake. Also, the lake is the only breeding area for the 2.5 million Lesser Flamingoes that live in the valley. The alkali salt crust on the surface of the lake is often colored red or pink by the salt-loving microorganisms that live there. The lake is quite shallow less than five meters and the width depends on the water content. If Lake Natron, in Africa’s Great Rift Valley, had a color theme, it would be pink.
The lake is typically red to pink in colour with a scarlet crust due to high mineral content and hot springs. This substance makes the waters of the lake have the same properties of ammonia with a pH between 9 and 10.5 and a temperature of about 60 ✬, creating an environment so corrosive that almost no animal can survive. Lake Natron has been acknowledged as the hell on Earth by many ecologists due to its deadly nature. Lake Natron is called this way because of the presence of the natural compound of sodium carbonate hydrate (in fact Natron) within its waters. # Natron: the sodium carbonate hydrate that kills Credits: Natron The lake Natron famously known as the red lake as it can turns animals into the stone is located on the northern part of Tanzania on the border of Kenya near the great East Africa rift is the soda lake that is located on the base of the Ol Donyo Lengai volcanic It is famously named this way because of its alkaline nature with the PH of 10. However, you should not imagine the classic blue lake, but rather a basin of reddish water with deep white streaks typical color of those lakes rich in sodium and often subject to evaporation cycles. The lake that turns animals into stone is called Lake Natron and is located in northern Tanzania, in the African Rift Valley at about 600m altitude. THE LAKE that turns ANIMALS into STONE # The Lake of Death Credits: natron This time, however, we are not talking about magic, but only about nature. Stretched Canvas Wall ArtOur made-to-order stretched canvas prints are professionally printed using the giclee art method with state-of-the-art latex print. It might remember one of the punishments of some evil witch, when then the good protagonist always comes to save the poor creatures. A mix between a horror film scene and reality, yet there really is a lake that turns animals into stone.
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