Blood-red from the bacteria that live in it, the salt lake is steaming hot, with temperatures that can reach up to 140 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the New Scientist. What was left for him to do was to arrange dead birds in “living positions” to create these eerie images of the living dead. Other than serving as a breeding area for the endangered Lesser Flamingo and as a home to certain kinds of algae and bacteria, Lake Natron is inhospitable to life. “ No one knows for certain exactly how they die, but it appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lake’s surface confuses them, and like birds crashing into plate glass windows, they crash into the lake.”
It sits below Ol Doinyo Lengai, a soaring active volcano in the Rift Valley. Lake Natron is a remarkable mineral-rich soda lake, in northern region of Tanzania at the border with Kenya. However, the lake also called the Stone Animal Lake is. 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. This serene lake in Africa, is the source of some fantastical photographs ever captured, where images look as though living animals instantly turned to stone. And this time he brings yet another amazing story from Lake Natron, a lake which turns dead animals into stone.Īlthough the local fauna has accumulated to living conditions in the area, Lake Natron in northern Tanzania is still a very harsh place to live. Temperatures in the lake can reach up to 140 F (60 C), and its alkalinity is between pH 9 and pH 10.5.ĭuring his trip there Brandt found dead birds calcified and washed ashore: “ I could not help but photograph them,” he said. This basically means that there is a high level of mineral and salts in the water which should make it impossible for animals to survive. In fact, Lake Natron's alkaline waters support a thriving ecosystem of.
Photographer Nick Brandt has been exploring east Africa for a couple of decades now, bridging the lives of local people and animals with the rest of the world through his captivating monochrome shots. Calcified animals found at Tanzanias Lake Natron. Despite some media reports, the animal didn't simply turn to stone and die after coming into contact with the lake's water.
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