Life in hell - survivors of salt and acid

Production
2010, France
French
00:43:00
Genre
documentary
biodiversity, biology, zoology
Thierry Berrod
Thierry Berrod
ARTE France, Mona Lisa Production, CNRS Images
Mona Lisa Production

Some species are perfectly adapted to live in conditions that would be lethal to the vast majority of other organisms. Scientists have baptized them extremophiles, that love extreme conditions.

They are found mainly in the most uninhabitable places and especially in large saline lakes and rivers acids: lake Rose in Senegal, salt swamps in France, lake Natron in Kenya, Mono and Owens lakes in the United States and acid river in Spain.