Death Valley is a mysterious place located at the foot of the Kikhpinych volcano in the Kronotsky Nature Reserve. The study showed that the death of living organisms here occurs instantly, so tourists are not allowed to enter the territory, but are asked to stay on the observation deck. Why is this happening? Let’s figure it out.
The truth is that Death Valley is surrounded by a toxic environment. There is a toxic cocktail underground: a mixture of hydrogen sulfide, carbon disulfide, cyanogen chloride and other dangerous gases that accumulate on the plains and form “traps”, especially in cloudy, windless weather. Animals or people caught in them die.
Over the years of existence of the location, a kind of ecological chain has formed here. When the snow melts, animals and birds die in a certain order: first birds, for example, sparrows, then small predators – foxes and herbivores – rabbits, then large predators. Due to their small size, all of them are affected by the smell of corpses, except for the birds that go to the “gas wells”, which are places where the ground opens up after the snow. Gases penetrate through cracks in the earth’s crust.
In this situation, bears mostly manage to survive. First of all, none of these gases can poison the meat enough to cause immediate death to the person eating it. Secondly, the effect of poisonous gases occurs in at least an hour, and bears manage to quickly leave the danger zone thanks to their sense of smell. They pass through the “Valley of Death” ignoring distractions. Brown predators also have a natural instinct of self-preservation. They come here because of the hot springs and green vegetation.
It was noteworthy that the chain was interrupted due to the decrease in the number of dead animals as the reserve personnel removed the bodies in time.
People have no chance of getting out of Death Valley alive. Gases have a nerve paralyzing effect, causing suffocation and cardiac arrest. Since humans do not have as developed a sense of smell as bears, we cannot detect a “trap” in time and leave the danger area.
By the way, Kamchatka, although there are beautiful places to travel, is already considered one of the most dangerous places. We previously explained that a volcano that had not erupted for more than 500 years woke up on the peninsula.
Source: People Talk
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