When they come to make the movie of the astonishing survival of four children in the remote jungle of Colombia, there will be a small but vital cameo role for a turtle.
“In the beliefs of our elders, if you find a turtle, you can ask it for a wish and that wish will come true,” said one of the indigenous people involved in the rescue. Half an hour before locating the children the team had come across a turtle in the dense rainforest, he recalled. “I told it: find me the children.”
Others involved in the search had other explanations for what had occurred: “Miracle! Miracle! Miracle! Miracle!” the rescuers broadcast four times on shortwave radio to signal that all four children had been
