Animals

Songs about or referencing animals.

Central theme

• Battle For The Planet Of The Apes
• Bee Of The Bird Of The Moth
• Beneath The Planet Of The Apes
• Birdhouse In Your Soul
• Birds Fly
• Brontosaurus
• Cave Fish
• CHimPS
• Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes
• Courage The Cowardly Dog
• Cowtown
• Dinner Bell - About Pavlov's dog
• Doctor Worm - In addition to Dr. Worm, his friend Rabbi Vole
• Dog
• Dog Entrance
• Dog On Fire
• Dog Walker
• Door To Door Minotaur
• The Drinky Crow Show Theme
• Dr. Sy Fly
• Elephants
• Escape From The Planet Of The Apes
• Flying V
• Free Bird's Rebirth
• The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)
• Havalina
• Hodgman Promo 1 - All about Hodgman's cats
• A Horse With No Name
• I Am A Paleontologist
• Insect Hospital
• Kitten Intro
• The Lady And The Tiger
• Live Like Pigs
• Mammal
• Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Theme
• Mink Car
• Moles, Hounds, Bears, Bees And Hares
• My Brother The Ape
• Olive, The Other Reindeer
• One Dozen Monkeys
• Penguine
• Pictures Of Pandas Painting
• Planet Of The Apes
• Pretty Fly
• Rat Patrol
• Ratcatcher Day
• Reptiles Eat With The Bones We Hear With
• Return To The Planet Of The Apes
• Snail Shell
• Snapping Turtle
• So Long, Mockingbird
• Spider
• Spoiled Milk From A Pampered Cow
• Stewy The Dog Boy
• Studio Cat
• This Ape's For You
• Tick
• Tigerella
• Triops Has Three Eyes
• Turtle Songs Of North America
• The Velvet Ape
• Walking My Cat Named Dog
• What Are We Doin' To Pigs?
• White Rabbit
• Youth Culture Killed My Dog

Briefly mentioned

• 100 Cars For Good - "Cats and hamsters and pot-bellied pigs / Dogs, iguanas and fish"
• 3 Chords, 2 Teeth, 1 Eye - "Who wants to walk like a kitty-cat?"
• AKA Driver - "We can't fly like birds in the air"
• Alphabet Lost And Found - "There was a zebra that lost his 'z'", "Crowds of people, animals, and inanimate objects"
• Answer - "Though every dream of a pony would end in tears"
• Apophenia - "Picture of a hunched old lady holding a dog"
• Authenticity Trip - "See I'm dead as a dog"
• Bad Jokes - "Why was I stapled to the chicken?", "I wasn't stapled to any chicken"
• The Ballad Of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space) - "Now the drone's a dog clone"
• Baroque Hoedown - Bears, hippo
• Bed Bed Bed - "Moo"
• Be Patient -"The cat is sitting on the bed"
• Bills, Bills, Bills - "Instead of a squirrel like you who don't know what a man's about"
• Broke In Two - "I heard 'I'm An Orangutan'"
• The Bullies- "Repeating old phrases like courses for horses"
• By The Time You Get This - "...there'll be no barking dogs"
• C Is For Conifers - "If you see a plant in the shape of an elephant or in the shape of a dog"
• Cabbagetown - "Just talking to the dog"
• Canada Haunts Me - "Because I have dreamed of black horses"
• Canajoharie - "When a daring mudskipper dragged itself away"
• Careful What You Pack - "Digging underground by the goldfish pond"
• CATENAS MEAS AMISI - (transl.) "Burrowing worms", "A bear dances", "A flight of geese overhead"
• Cells - "A frog, a fish, or you"
• Certain People I Could Name - "A lizard stalks a helpless creature on TV"
• Chainsaw Dick - "I carve animals..."
• Charleston - Music chickens, Music cows, you get the idea.
• Charlottesville - "Spun from sugar by woodland creatures", "Sell the dog, sell the fish, sell the birds"
• Cloisonné - "With my three blind cats", "I'm sick of this beeswax"
• The Communists Have The Music - "Plutocrats in their beaver hats"
• Dallas - "Tell the moon you've seen the serpent", "On the limb you fell the nest of bees"
• Damn Good Times - "She's got ants in her pants"
• Dark And Metric - "Parrot on my arm"
• Date At The Dimestore - "Clean the dog and the litter"
• Definition Of Good - "Clams secretly smiling at clam jokes", "Two flamingos engaging in a fruit fight", "Hide and seek with a dog"
• Don't Let's Start - "When you are alone, you are the cat, you are the phone, you are an animal" "Don’t try to stop the tail that wags the hound" "Deputy-dog"
• Drink! - "In your monkey suit"
• Dunkin Of Course Of Course - "Don't kick the lobster, kick the clam"
• Red Red Intro - "Monkey choke / Monkey got broke"
• Everything Right Is Wrong Again - "You're a weasel overcome with dinge"
• Fake-Believe - Alpacas
• Fibber Island - "We just ride giraffes", "Our dog is two miles wide"
• Go For G! - Gorillas, gazelles, goats, gophers
• Happy Doesn't Have To Have An Ending - "Long-haired hippie kitten"
• Haunted Floating Eye - "A spider was my mom"
• Hello Mrs. Wheelyke - "You can ride on lions", "Lions will cheer", "Never eat a big pile of sand which you found at the beach / Or picnic with wolves"
• Hide Away Folk Family - Sadly the cross-eyed bear
• Hodgman Promo 3 - "Cat out the bag, Mr. Olivera?"
• Hot Dog! - "Hot Dog, Leapfrog and Holy Cow", "So long for now from Mickey Mouse"
• The House At The Top Of The Tree - A dog and mice
• Houston - "I wanna go play where the geckos play"
• How Can I Sing Like A Girl? - "Birds are calling to sing along"
• Icky - "Full-time occupation listed as life-draining leech"
• I Am Alone - "The fox has been outfoxed again"
• I Am Invisible - "Did the cat just learn how to fly?", "Did the cat turn on the dishwasher?"
• I Enjoy Being A Boy - Starfish, blackbirds
• I Left My Body - "...the bat repellent soap"
• I Lost Thursday - "Cool as an amphibian"
• I Love You For Psychological Reasons - "Why does the mouse share the house with the louse?"
• I Need Some Lovin' - "Some turtledove-in'"
• I Palindrome I - "I am a snake head eating the head on the opposite side"
• I'm Impressed - "When that gorilla beats his chest"
• I'm Not A Loser - "You're not hallucinating this sea anemone chorus line at all"
• I've Got A Match - "Beat up the cat"
• Impossible - "I'd like to be an octofish"
• In Fact - "Let me out / Don't want to be your mouse"
• Iowa - A cat
• It Said Something - "Set the monkeys free"
• James K. Polk - "From Nashville came a dark horse riding up"
• Kids Go! - "Move like a monkey"
• King Weed - Mice, cats, sparrows, roaches, housefly, worms
• Kings Of The Cave - "Take me to the animal's den", "Got to find some creature I can kill with a spear"
• Lazy - Puppies, chickens, birds, bees
• Lesson 16 - "I wrung his neck like a duckling"
• Letterbox - "'Cause a little bird never tells me anything I wanna know, she's my best friend, she's a sparrow"
• Let Your Hair Hang Down - "Can't we leave the barking dogs"
• Let's Get This Over With - "After every clam has been baked"
• Lines Upon A Tranquil Brow - "Watching the tomtit", "This life is for squirrels"
• Live Like Pigs
• Lullaby To Nightmares - "When the elephants die", "Have you ever heard the blackbird's song?", "In the night where bat wings flow"
• Madam, I Challenge You To A Duel - "Yes, your little dog may hold the pistols"
• Maine - "Reclining in the bear trap of its tender warm embrace"
• Meet The Elements - "Did you know that elephants are made of elements?", "...bugs, birds, fish..."'
• Metal Detector - "Look past the squawking gull"
• Michigan - "The tank the fishes are in"
• Microphone - "The dog who hears it"
• Money For Dope - "Lobster shell"
• Moonbeam Rays - "Singing out / With cicadas now"
• Mr. Hughes Says - "Tell the alien and the chimp", "Tell the birds and tell the fly", "Tell the goats and tell the kid"
• Nice Is Good, Mean Is Bad - "Pet my fur, touch my tail / I need you to touch my fur / And to touch my tail"
• Nice 'N' Easy - "Simply hold your horses"
• Nine Bowls Of Soup - An ichthyosaur
• No Answer - A taxidermy tiger
• North To Alaska - "He called to his team of huskies"
• Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes - "Some people call them snake eyes / But to me they look like mice"
• Number Three - "Now I'm in the middle like a bird without a beak"
• Oh You Did - "How did the carton of milk get filled with shaved off puppy hairs?"
• Old Pine Box - "On your skull full of bats"
• On Earth My Nina - "Say, the sparrow wants a morbid arrow"
• One Everything - "There are some clouds, some birds, a monster"
• Or So I Have Read - "Animals can smell your dreams"
• Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head - "And though the guy's a pig"
• Q U - Squid
• Rabid Child - Rabbit Ears
• Raleigh - "My name is Jump Little Chicken"
• Renew My Subscription - "Makes the carpet stop turning into snakes"
• Sally Boy Candy Bar - "I've been told when a fish needs a bike, the fish can walk or take a hike"
• Science Is Real - "About angels, unicorns and elves"
• Sensurround - Jaws
• Shape Shifter - "The koi in the tank"
• (She Was A) Hotel Detective - "The dumbwaiter's a monkey,"
• She Was A Hotel Detective - Furs
• She's An Angel - "I met someone at the dog show"
• Sleepless Stephanie - "Now what's the place to go if I were a sheep?"
• Sometimes A Lonely Way - "A new home for the trumpeter swan"
• Stalk Of Wheat - "I was all out of luck like a duck that died / I was all out of juice like a moose denied / I was all out of money like a bunny that's broke"
• Stuff Is Way - "The stalking horse", "the pony is a phony"
• Swing Is A Word - "Where's my cat's pajamas?"
• Synopsis For Latecomers - "Abandoned in the desert sands, covered in snakes", equestrian monument
• Take Out The Trash - "Put that cat in the bin"
• Tennessee - "It did not give of bird or bush"
• Tesla - "Out of the windows birds fly"
• They Might Be Giants (1989 Rough Mix) - "They might be yelling out albatross"
• There Will Be Sad - "Sad poultry will come home to roost at last"
• Thinking Machine - "Dog dog dog dog dog dog dog"
• Three Might Be Duende - "Like a bird with a dastardly egg"
• Through Being Cool - "Be a man or a mouse"
• Tired Of Sleeping - "The bird on the string is hanging"
• Tractor - "The stomach of an arachnid"
• Trouble Awful Devil Evil - "Bat wings flapping just over my bed"
• Tryptophane - "By the leg of the bird", "Like a swan on the lake"
• T-Shirt - Squirrels, monkeys
• Twisting - "She set your goldfish free"
• Violin - "Hippo"
• Wait Actually Yeah No - "Camels in a caravan"
• Walk On Water - "Walk on the fish", "I'm gonna make like a bird / And fly through the air"
• Waves - "Birds make waves when they sing"
• We Live In A Dump - "Hanging out while the monkeys type away", "We're living with bats"
• Welcome To The Jungle - Bugs under the rock
• We Want A Rock - "If I were a carpenter I'd hammer on my piglet"
• Where Do They Make Balloons? - Dogs, chickens, fishes, ants, monkeys, and turkeys
• Why Did You Grow A Beard? - "Animals rule this land"
• With The Dark - "My mind naturally turns to taxidermy"
• Words Are Like - "A snail", "A billy goat"
• Yeah, The Deranged Millionaire - "He lost a lot of money betting on the genome of bats"
• You Are Old, Father William - "Yet you finished the goose", Yet you balanced the eel"
• You'll Miss Me - "While bloodhounds wait down in the lobby"
• You Don't Like Me - "Battleship, cats, and Court TV"
• You Probably Get That A Lot - "As the headless horseman said to his associate / The bodiless baboonsman cradled in his arms"

Honorable mentions

• Apollo 18 album cover features a sperm whale and giant squid
• Asbury Park - Venue song for The Stone Pony
• Clap Your Hands - Video included on CD features robot birds
• Computer Assisted Design - Video includes both a "ro-bird" and a "robot dino"
• Dallas - Serpent, cat, bees (in music video)
• Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants cover art has a close-up of an ant.
• The Edison Museum - Long Tall Weekend liner-note illustration includes a spider
• The Else's artwork features some animal costumes, including some masks seen here.
• Experimental Film - In the H*R video, "It's a lion!"
• Figure Eight - Also briefly shows the text "It's a lion!" in the music video
• Here Come The 123s - Cover art includes an owl and a suit-wearing dog
• Here Comes Science - Cover art features drawings of several animals and their scientific names.
• It Was A Very Good Year - "Cat fights"
• Lazyhead And Sleepybones - The liner notes and enhanced CD material imply that the title characters are two stuffed animals.
• Letter Shapes - Shows a dog multiple times in the music video
• New Haven - Venue song for Toad's Place
• Pet Name - Pets are animals, "Cat's Cradle"
• The Spine's album cover has a roasted turkey on it
• They Might Be Giants' cover has a dog
• Thunderbird
• Tricerachops Horns - They Might Be Giant's horn section
• Wake Up Call - Video included on CD has roosters
• Whence That Wince - Music video has many animal heads in it
• The Deeply Felt Puppet Theater - A group of puppets consisting of a monkey, a poodle, and a parrot (usually seen in Here Come The ABCs videos)
• In some Linnell demos a dog can be heard barking.

See also

• Insects