![]() “You’d literally get, say, a hundred finches washed ashore in a 50-yard stretch. Its shores are littered with the calcified corpses of a variety of birds and bats that had met their untimely demise after crashing into the deadly lake. I saw entire flocks of dead birds all washed ashore together, lemming-like,” he says. The extreme sodium bicarbonate content preserves animals. And this time he brings yet another amazing story from Lake Natron, a lake which turns dead. The most mysterious part of Lake Natron is its eerie ability to turn animals corpses to stone. 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. During dry season, Brandt discovered, when the water recedes, the birds’ desiccated, chemically-preserved carcasses wash up along the coastline. Photographer Captures Animals That Look Like Theyve Turned To Stone. Deadly Lake in Africa Turns Animals Into Stone. Brandt theorizes that the highly-reflective, chemical dense waters act like a glass door, fooling birds into thinking they’re flying through empty space (not long ago, a helicopter pilot tragically fell victim to the same illusion, and his crashed aircraft was rapidly corroded by the lake’s waters). In fact, Lake Natrons alkaline waters support a thriving ecosystem of salt marshes, freshwater wetlands, flamingos and other wetland birds, tilapia and the. A swallow © Nick Brandt 2013, Courtesy of Hasted Kraeutler Gallery, NYĪs you might expect, few creatures live in the harsh waters, which can reach 140 degrees Fahreinheit-they’re home to just a single fish species ( Alcolapia latilabris), some algae and a colony of flamingos that feeds on the algae and breeds on the shore.įrequently, though, migrating birds crash into the lake’s surface.
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