NATURE: "SPY IN THE WILD"
PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET
This Nature miniseries, built around animatronic creatures placed in natural environments to watch and capture how real animals react to them, is so much fun to watch. Tonight’s installment is called “Intelligence,” and shows such unpredictable interactions as a real squirrel stealing a “spy nut” from its mechanical counterpart. Well, “mechanical” isn’t the precise word to describe this fabricated squirrel replica, but what is? “Inhuman” doesn’t apply – and “insquirrel” just sounds wrong. Instead of “animatronic,” how about, say, “animaltronic”? I'm here to serve... Check local listings.