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Wade Davis is an author, anthropologist and National Geographic Society Explorer-in-Residence. His latest book, Magdalena: River of Dreams, is published by The Bodley Head, Vintage (£25). Photograph by Adam Dillon There’s a tributary in the Magdalena that runs over a bed of green marble, passing beneath tall limestone bluffs with caves that come alive at dusk as thousands of guácharos (oilbirds) emerge into the night. Spinning in the darkness, the birds quickly disappear beyond the highest reaches of the canopy. At dawn, they return, satiated and weary and there’s a brief moment of calm, soon broken by a cacophony of hoots, whistles and screams as scores of forest creatures awaken to herald the sun. Some mornings one can hear the distant sound of jungle cats, a reminder of a time, within the memory of men, when jaguars came to this secret forest to mate, seeking refuge in a river valley known only to them.

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