Talking with Animals by Charlotte Uhlenbroek, Hodder & Stoughton, £18.99, ISBN 034082123X Reviewed by John Bonner
MAKING good-looking and intelligent natural history documentaries has long been a high spot of the BBC’s television output. For two recent major series, Cousins in 1990 and this summer’s Talking with Animals, the corporation employed a presenter who also fits that description sexist as that might be. As a result, Dr Charlotte Uhlenbroek is now probably the only research biologist in the world with an unofficial website where fans breathlessly record her every thought and deed. There is even a page on another site offering…
