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Jungle by Charlotte Uhlenbroek, Hodder & Stoughton, £18.99, ISBN 0340734205 Reviewed by Fred Pearce

AFTER a decade masquerading as politically correct rainforest, the jungle is back. Charlotte Uhlenbroek accompanies her BBC series of that name with a very acceptable and scientifically literate piece of light reading in which the vertigo-prone biologist describes being hoisted up into jungle canopies in search of creatures almost as telegenic as her.

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