Is there any great music about zoos?

Jude T said:
In Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon by Queen, Freddie Mercury mentions “waltzing to the zoo” and I believe there are a few more zoo references in Queen songs and I am under the impression that Mr Mercury was quite fond of animals, that being said he did once have a man biting the heads off live chickens at a party which I can’t imagine went down well with a certain Dr Brian May.
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I thought the chicken incident was Ozzy Osbourne?
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
I thought the chicken incident was Ozzy Osbourne?
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The internet tells me that was a dead bat but I’m not 100% sure, there was also an incident involving him and doves I believe, I think the man biting heads off live chickens was at one of Freddie Mercury’s parties rather than concerts, there was also an incident in which Alice Cooper in which he threw a live chicken off the stage thinking it would fly but it instead ended up in the audience who decided to divide it between themselves.
 
Jude T said:
The internet tells me that was a dead bat but I’m not 100% sure, there was also an incident involving him and doves I believe, I think the man biting heads off live chickens was at one of Freddie Mercury’s parties rather than concerts, there was also an incident in which Alice Cooper in which he threw a live chicken off the stage thinking it would fly but it instead ended up in the audience who decided to divide it between themselves.
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I tend to think everyone was so high on acid at that time that no one can really remember for sure who bit the head off of what animal and when :confused:.
 
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The only song that comes to mind that hasn't already been mentioned is "We're Going to the Zoo" from the TV show "Milo Murphy's Law". It's a bit repetitive, though.
 
The music video for the song "Come Undone" by Duran Duran was filmed in the London aquarium (features an arapaima, a ray, a green sea turtle and several black tipped reef sharks) which I suppose counts as a zoo, right ?


 
Over the course of the pandemic, myself and Helly have fallen into the rather deep abyss of cheesy 70s and 80s disco and electro music from Italy, Germany and the Eastern Bloc; some of it is genuinely good, some of it is unbearably terrible, and some of it is just plain bizarre.

This is one such track, which fits the subject matter of this thread:


It's definitely not great, though :p
 
In the "can't believe it hasn't been mentioned yet" category, here's "I Go To The Zoo", from the tv show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

Plus Harry's recent visit to the old penguin exhibit:
 
Ahaha this song gets stuck in my head every time I visit the Toronto Zoo, mostly because my whole family sings it! From a very beloved game from me and my sibling's childhood, Putt Putt Saves the Zoo. I think its great :D

 
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