CHARLOTTE UHLENBROEK

You can watch Charlotte Uhlenbroek on The Secret Life of Primates

Zoologist Dr Charlotte Uhlenbroek, with her passion for primates, has been hailed as the new wildlife guru. Uhlenbroek was born in London but spent only 10 days on British soil before her parents moved to Ghana. After more globetrotting, Uhlenbroek's family moved to Nepal and often went trekking in the Himalayas.

Uhlenbroek first made her UK TV debut on Dawn To Dusk, in the late 1990s, a BBC series presented by Jonathan Scott, about chimps in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania.

Other BBC programmes she has subsequently presented include Chimpanzee Diary, Cousins (2000), Congo's Secret Chimps (2001), Talking with Animals (2002), Jungle (2003) and Secret Gorillas Of Mondika (2005).

Planet Earth Live
Life is Sharing

  • Planet Earth Live is the biggest live wildlife broadcast ever undertaken.

  • As a child, Richard Hammond started his own wildlife club and armed with a nature kit set out to study the wildlife in his Solihull garden.

  • In Africa, Richard will be joining Kenyan elephant researcher David Daballen who knows more than 700 of the Samburu elephants by name.

  • Our closest relatives, the chimps and gorillas, laugh when tickled.

  • Dolphins can point with their bodies and have been known to communicate an object's location to human divers.

  • Flamingos are only red because of the food they eat.