Above, on the right we have a sea eagle and on the left a dove, in what is surely the most horrific depiction of the bird of peace since. The calcification made their bodies extremely hard. The animals are all arranged in poses by the photographer. But there’s no evidence the lake is the “deadliest place for animals”.īrandt told Huffington Post that the “soda and salt causes the creatures to calcify, perfectly preserved, as they dry”. Huffington Post quotes Brandt as saying in his book that “no one knows for certain” how the animals die, “but it appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lake’s surface confuses them, causing them to crash into the lake”. The collection has been turned into a book, and includes several other photos of flying animals “petrified” by the soda lake. The lake is close to the Kenyan border and is in the Gregory Rift, which is the eastern branch of the East African Rift.The lake is within the Lake Natron Basin, a Ramsar Site. The photos are part of Brandt’s Across the Ravaged Land collection, snapped from 2010 to 2012. the water in lake natron has a ph of 10. Lake Natron is a salt and soda lake in the Arusha Region of northern Tanzania.
National Geographic says the photos were taken by photographer Nick Brandt, who “unexpectedly found the dead animals that had washed up on the shore, preserved by the lake, and posed them as they had been in life”. The lake’s water is a concentrate of a caustic alkaline brine due to its significant amounts of carbonate and low levels of calcium and magnesium. The Lake That Turns Animals Into StoneLake Natron in northern Tanzania is one of the harshest environments on Earth.
The lake’s high alkalinity can reach a pH of more than 12 and the surrounding bedrock is “composed of alkaline, sodium-dominated trachyte lavas that were laid down during the Pleistocene period”. But is it “deadly” for animals, turning any that enter its waters to stone? We investigated.Īccording to the Tanzania Tourist Board, Lake Natron is a soda lake where high levels of evaporation have left behind the minerals natron and trona. Lake Natron is a real lake in the East African country of Tanzania. “Any animal which enters the lake turns into stone-like structure.” “Natron lake in Tanzania is the most deadliest place for animals,” the text reads. 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. A graphic doing the rounds on Facebook shows three eerie photos of grey, sculpture-like animals – a bat and two birds.
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