Samantha Skyring

But they have to lick salt frequently because of the minerals in the trace elements and because of the salt helps them stay hydrated.

So another sort of miracle is that their hair is hydroscopic.

Apparently it's microscopic straws, and so they hydrate hypodermically, which is fascinating.

There's always moisture and dew in the nighttime air in the desert.

And all vegetation swells at night as well.

So they hydrate from what they're eating.

Pretty rad.

Yeah, exactly.

No, not quite.

So I had started the brand and I was told that there were big storms.

And so this beautiful salt pan where Oryx comes from is inside the Kalahari Desert, which is 9 million hectares.

The closest town is 175 miles away.

It's a 5,000 hectare salt pan.

And they discovered underground a 55 million tonne salt lake.

Absolutely.

And it is renewed and sustained by three subterranean rivers that flow 100 and 300 feet underground.

They flow through rock charter that have been tested at 280 million years old and.

phenomenon is that the salt water or brine when it gets poured up onto the salt pan one it has not been touched by human hands and two it is oversaturated so in summer at 120 degrees fahrenheit where i think we're about getting to

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