Charlotte Uhlenbroek

Charlotte Jane Uhlenbroek (born January 4, 1968 in London ) is a British zoologist and television presenter .

Life

Charlotte Uhlenbroek was born on January 4, 1968 in London as the daughter of a Dutch agricultural specialist in the service of the United Nations and his British wife. However, her parents moved to Ghana just a few days after she was born. At the age of five, she moved with her parents to Kathmandu in Nepal , where she lived for almost ten years.

She studied zoology and psychology at the University of Bristol , where she completed her PhD in zoology on chimpanzee communication . After graduation, she helped Jane Goodall for six months in setting up a protection project for chimpanzees in Burundi and then worked under Goodall for another four years in the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania .

She came into contact with television during her doctorate, initially as a scientific advisor for the nature documentary Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees , with her debut in front of the camera in the production Dawn to Dusk and two seasons of the chimpanzee documentary Chimpanzee Diary .

Television productions

• Cousins , 2000
• Congo's Secret Chimps , 2001
• Talking with Animals , 2002
• Going Ape , 2002
• Jungle , 2003
• Secret Gorillas of Mondika , 2005
• Safari School , 2007

Fonts

• The Structure and Function of the Long-Distance Calls Given by Male Chimpanzees in Gombe National Park . University of Bristol, 1995 (dissertation).
• Talking with Animals . Hodder & Stoughton, London 2002, ISBN 978-0-340-82123-7 .
• Jungle. A Journey to the Heart of the Rain Forest . Charnwood Publ., Leicester 2005, ISBN 1-8439-5686-1 .

Web links

• Charlotte Uhlenbroek in the Internet Movie Database (English)