Collected Animals

And what animals havent they done songs about

You can include solo stuff too so cows are covered

I feel like theyve actually covered most of the animals. Cats (meow kitties), dogs (doggy), bird (cuckoo cuckoo), duck (daffy) like what else even is there

List so far (I am editing to add your suggestions):

Meow Kitties (Leaf House)
Doggys (Doggy)
Bird (Cuckoo Cuckoo)
Duck (Daffy Duck)
Panda Bears (Flesh Canoe + every song about noah leaving the band)
Dolphin (Dolphin)
Seals (Seal Eyeing)
Otters (Boat Race)
Eagles (Crimson, I'm Your Eagle Kisser, Applesauce, Mr Noah)
The Lizard (Applesauce)
Bulbasaur (Applesauce)
Creatures (Vertical)
Bats (Bat You'll Fly)
Tigers (We Tigers)
Penguin (Penguin Penguin)
Manatees (every song on Danse Manatee)
The Bees (Bees)
The Beast (Bees)
Coral (Coral Lords, all of the other songs about Coral)
Banshees (Banshee Beat)
Panthers (April and the Phantom)
Koalas (In Pieces)
Cats (Prospect Hummer, Neurons. Little Fang)
Goats/Sheep (Daffy Duck)
Sharks (Unsolved Mysteries)
Pelicans (Peacebone)
Seagulls (Dragon Slayer and Maya)
Cows (every song on Cows On Hourglass Pond)
Owls (Bros)
Centipedes (Moonjock and every other song on Centipede Hz)
Rabbit (Who Could Win A Rabbit)
Lion (Lion In A Coma)
This Dog (Mr Noah)
Winged Dinosaurs (Peacebone)
All Dinosaurs (Hocus Pocus)
Dead Fly (Peacebone)
Sheep Dogs (Principe Real)
Sheep (Principe Real)
Jellyfish (Manowar)
Anaconda (Amazonawana, Anaconda Opportunity)
Whales (Baleen Sample)
Wolves (Safer, Loch Raven)
Peacock (Sunset)
Clams (Monkey Riches)
Monkeys (Monkey Riches)
Fireflies (No More Running)

every song about noah leaving the band is implicitly about a panda bear

Dolphin
Seal Eyeing
Boat Race (otters)

Crimson talks about eagles and derek is another dog song. HORS_ is self-explanatory...

one, the eagle
two, the noble
three, the lizard

even in leaves some creatures build themselves a home

one, the eagle
two, the noble
three, the lizard

Oh yeah that one has bulbasaur in it too, good call

Also yeah, good to see the general creatures being covered too.

I'm sure we got many more to dig up! Like I just remembered Bat You'll Fly. There's many others still to be posted!

tigers, manatees, do bugs count? if so then bees. i don't really know what the fuck a loch raven is but assuming it has something to do with an actual raven i guess it counts? banshees aren't really animals right? they're like demons or something? did anyone mention ducks yet

is coral a animal or rocks

Panthers (April and the Phantom)
Koalas (In Pieces)
Cats (Prospect Hummer)
Goats/Sheep (Daffy Duck)
Sharks (Unsolved Mysteries)
Pelicans (Peacebone)
Seagulls (Dragonslayer)

i don't really know what the fuck a loch raven is but assuming it has something to do with an actual raven i guess it counts?

It's a lake in Baltimore area I believe, which makes sense the touring title was simply "Lake"

Panthers (April and the Phantom)

Seagulls (Dragonslayer)

dansemanatee wrote:

i don't really know what the fuck a loch raven is but assuming it has something to do with an actual raven i guess it counts?

It's a lake in Baltimore area I believe, which makes sense the touring title was simply "Lake"

Seagulls on Maya as well and this def doesn't count but they sound a lot like seagulls in that one part of good lovin outside

Omg ur so right ab the lake thing. I wonder if Lake Damage is referencing that lake

Centipede (Hz) name dropped in moonjock intro

Bros owl lol

lion in a coma, lion in a coma

i think avey said "neurons" is about medicine he had to give his cat ... and i always felt like "we ran under the bed, human hectic human hectic" (if that is the line) was from his cat's perspective ...

this dog got bit on a leg

(also i definitely always hear bulbasaur on applesauce lol)

is coral a animal or rocks

cnidarian!

gesundheit

Dinosaur (Peacebone)

Crimson mr noah and one other that im forgetting all talk about eagles.

Principe Real references sheepdogs a lot.

Sponge Luke has always been a funny title to me. Like maybe their funniest title but also their best song tbh. Always wondered if it had anything to do with Spongebob. "What's that show with the talking sponge, Sponge Luke or something?"

I think little fang is also about AV's cat.

Loooool, does CA account not show post edits? This whole time I've been yelling at my monitor "It's in the OP!"

Jellyfish (Manowar by Geologist)
Anaconda (Amazonawana/Anaconda Opportunity)
Whales (Baleen Sample if parts of an animal count)
Wolves (Safer)
Peacock (Sunset)
Clams & Monkeys (Monkey Riches)
Fireflies (No More Running)

Loooool, does CA account not show post edits? This whole time I've been yelling at my monitor "It's in the OP!"

Lol yeah ca acct can edit without notice

Will get these added!

defeat has serpents, lambs, and dogs

People (always got to wash them at their ends)

"LIKE CROCODILES!" (Safer... assuming that actually is the line)
Safer also mentions hares

Fireflies are referenced in the first few lines of Laughing Hieroglyphic as well

Arguably the entire Down There album is "about" crocodiles and/or alligators

"Oh, you make me wanna (turns into a wolf and attacks)" Avey's description of Loch Raven lol

"Young red bird" Flesh Canoe

tigers, manatees, do bugs count? if so then bees. i don't really know what the fuck a loch raven is but assuming it has something to do with an actual raven i guess it counts? banshees aren't really animals right? they're like demons or something? did anyone mention ducks yet

I agree about banshees, they aren't any more a kind of animal than, like, a ghost is

Yeah bees are a kind of animal. They're just not as prototypical as things like mammals and reptiles are. I think when people say "animals" they often are thinking of vertebrates

The real question is whether food imagery outnumbers animal references

Animal Collective - More Songs About Animals and Food (2025)

food thread would be fun for sure

did we get the "underwater show" (my head was exploding) in "kinda bonkers"?
or all the fish (who) are at the surf-ass in "peacebone"?

"piggy knows"

also "preakness" (horses) and, i think, there's a line in "purple bottle" about the same race ... ("you get me freaked, freaked, freaked on preakness"??)

^ yeah, and Purple Bottle also explicitly mentions horses in the next line

Also "bird cage" another bird mention

La Rapet "the birds are calling for ya" more birds!

parrots (Polly)



"see the chihuahua weave through space" (Walk Around with You aka Bear Hug aka Summertime Clothes)

"see the chihuahua weave through space" (Walk Around with You aka Bear Hug aka Summertime Clothes)

i appreciate this one. how about the apple-eating pony that used to throw avey from the thoroughfare in grass

Ah that's a bit before my time / haven't checked out enough boots I suppose

On a similar note though

Sloths (Dancer/In the Flowers)
("weeks that passed slower than a sloth"

Frogs (Covered in Frogs)
(damn, bet you guys are kicking yourselves for this one)

Worms (Sasong)
("worms get smashed under")

Some animals from Panda Bear's debut that have already been covered I guess:

Cows (On the Farm)
Horses (On the Farm)
Fish (Ain't Got No Troubles)
Animals (Fire!)

"see the chihuahua weave through space" (Walk Around with You aka Bear Hug aka Summertime Clothes)

Oh thats what he's saying? I always thought it was something about a Wawa, like the convenience store. We don't have any of those where I live, I'm assuming our equivalent is Speedway or something like that.

Hmm, it doesn't seem like there were any Wawas in New York in the mid-2000s, assuming that's where Dave was living and where the song is set. Also I don't know what the rest of the line would be either. Even though the chihuaha line is kind of strange

de soto de son is full of animals

^ Wow yeah, I've never really known the words for that song

blue herons, green flies, crickets, birds, crocodiles, ponies





Ahhh Good Country mentions mountain lions

The chihuahua line is a favorite of mine. Admittedly, I've never been able to understand what it literally says (i.e., "a dog moves through an environment") until reading it in this thread. Given Dave's heat-sick, heartsick, drunken stamper and the erotically woozy Roland synth melodies, I've always heard it as an innocent reflection of Dave's nearly psychotic desire to get outside of himself and be in the freedom of his love with the one he loves. No literal doggy, no environment but doggone s p a c e !

This understanding may have something to do with being 19 and living in the Loop in Chicago when this song came out... might be mirroring some of my own experiences lol.