I’m drawn from my bed at dawn, lured by something deep and impossible to ignore – an evolutionary impulse, perhaps – to the ...

Indeed, the Galapagos have been called a living laboratory ... three others living on cactuses and eating seeds; one living in trees and eating seeds; and 7 species of tree-dwelling insect-eaters.

On board La Pinta, we visited five of the eastern Galapagos islands, from the arid cactus tree landscape of South Plaza to Española’s terrain of lava boulders, and lush San Cristóbal – home ...