Water levels fluctuate easily because it's so hot - when the levels drop, the corpses are left behind on the shores, coated in salt, exactly how Brandt found them. Small birds or bats that try and fail to cross the 12- by 30-mile lake fall in, as do insects like beetles and locusts. Nick Brandt / Courtesy of Hasted Kraeutler Gallery Flamingos are some of the lucky birds that can make the trip across the lake which is 30-miles wide at its longest point. It is titled “Across the Ravaged Land” published in 2013."If a body falls anywhere else it decomposes very quickly, but on the edge of the lake, it just gets encrusted in salt and stays forever," David Harper, an ecologist at the University of Leicester who has visited Lake Natron four times, told NBC News. Photographer Nick Brandt has captured a number of images of the lake and the dead animals who met their demise here. The water looks like a sea of blood from the distance. The Egyptians used this same method preserving the dead long ago. With the power of alkalinity in the water and the amount of sodium carbonate, this lake has mummified many animals. Both of these lakes do not drain into any river or sea. Lake Natron is one of two known alkaline lakes in the eastern part of Africa. With the shallow shoreline, they use the small islands it to build their nests upon during the dry season. During the breeding season, there are more than 2 million flamingos that come to Lake Natron each year.
This lake has gained the reputation of killing quite literally any creature which comes near the lake itself. Some of the photographs seen are staged by photographers after sifting through corpses along the shore of the lake. Contrary to popular belief the lesser flamingo birds will not instantly turn to stone. This makes this area not very good for any wildlife with the exception of a few species of fish, endemic algae and flamingo birds who can survive the slightly less salty portions of the lake area. This is almost the same as ammonia making it rather toxic. With temperatures reaching up to 140 degrees ☏ or 60 ☌ with the rainfall, the alkalinity of the lake will reach upwards of 10.5.
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