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. When salinity increases, so do cyanobacteria, and the lake can also support more nests. # 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. The lake is the only regular breeding area in East Africa for the 2.5 million lesser flamingoes, whose status of 'near threatened' results from their dependence on this one location. 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. 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 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 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 Gelai volcano (9,652 feet 2,942 m) is at the lake’s. The lake’s warm water is an ideal breeding ground for the Rift Valley flamingos. The lake is 35 miles (56 km) long and 15 miles (24 km) wide and contains salt, soda, and magnesite deposits.
The high salt content erodes, and hardens the bodies of birds, making them look like stone. THE LAKE that turns ANIMALS into STONE # The Lake of Death Credits: natron Lake Natron, lake in northern Tanzania on the border with Kenya, lying in the East African Rift System, 70 miles (113 km) northwest of Arusha. The reason the animals look like stone statues is because the type of preservation that occurs is very similar to Egyptain mummification. This time, however, we are not talking about magic, but only about nature. 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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