Happy Monday, folks! Well, we survived the first week of school somehow. Most of the kids did, too, and without their cellphones, if you can imagine that! Anyway, here’s a bunch of songs about animals.

1. Bob Dylan, “Man Gave Names to All the Animals”: We could think of the Garden of Eden as a sort of proto-zoo, I guess, and Adam and Eve as the first zookeepers. Well, until all that apple business went down.
2. Survivor, “Eye of the Tiger”: Let’s start things off in the big cats area. And watch out for the tigers. If you can see their eyes, it’s probably already too late.
3. Steve Miller Band, “Fly Like an Eagle”: Let’s hop over to the aviary, where we can soar with the eagles and look at the sea, apparently.
4. Neko Case, “The Tigers Have Spoken”: Oh, back to the big cats. Did you know tigers talk? It’s true! Neko Case said so.
5. Pink Floyd, “Sheep”: Pink Floyd did a whole album called Animals, so you know they knew what was up with zoos.
6. Josh Ritter, “To the Dogs or Whoever”: Dogs might be in zoos, right? Or dog-like animals, perhaps?
7. Peter Gabriel, “Shock the Monkey”: There’s definitely monkeys, and they’re only shocking when they fling their poo or masturbate in front of zoo visitors.
8. Tom Waits, “Get Behind the Mule”: Not sure how mules feature into a zoo, but who knows, maybe in the petting zoo area?
9. Andrew Bird, “Sic of Elephants”: Elephants are definitely something you’d see at a zoo! Maybe not sycophants, though.
10. Tom Petty, “Zombie Zoo”: The worst zoo. Everyone tried to bite me. Zero stars.