PICK OF THE DAY

ANIMALS BEHAVING BADLY, 8PM, BBC1

IN THIS charming new natural history series, Liz Bonnin (pictured right) meets the animal outlaws who will stop at nothing to survive. In the

opening episode, we meet the wildlife using outrageous means to find mates and raise families, from feisty mongooses who start wars to pick their perfect partners and bees ready to kill to secure their mates, to swaggering peacocks faking mating calls and female prairie dogs taking on multiple partners to ensure the future of their species. Well, they do call it survival of the fittest . . .