Stories: Colombia

Stories connected to Colombia.

• A longtime gravedigger turned memories of war into an album.Domingo Chalá spent much of his life as a gravedigger in Bojayá, Colombia, and buried victims of the 2002 mas…
• A nocturnal fruit eater navigates with clicking soundsOilbirds forage for fruit at night and can supplement their vision with echolocation in poor light. Their sha…
• Alfa and Beto carried a travelling libraryIn the late 1990s, Colombian teacher Luis Soriano began visiting rural communities with a library of seventy…
• Surinam toad young develop in pockets on their mother’s backThe South American frog Pipa pipa carries developing eggs within pockets in the female’s back skin. The young…
• The red lips are not petalsPalicourea elata grows in Central and South American rainforests. Its conspicuous red, lip-shaped structures…