Hay Festival Medellín 2026

Andrés Cota Hiriart is a Mexican biologist, zoologist and writer who has written books including Faunologías, El ajolote. Biología del anfibio más sobresaliente del mundo, Fieras familiares and Fieras interiores, and has come close to all kinds of animals in their natural habitats, travelling to some amazing places around the world, like the Galapagos, Borneo, Sulawesi and the island of Guadalupe. At this event, at which he will share images and excerpts from his books, Cota will focus on a wonderful creature from his native Mexico: the axolotl, a little amphibian with an impressive capacity for regenerating its limbs and organs. In conversation with Andrés Roldán.