...would not be the same without its coda of a succession of animals clucking, bleating and a-barking.

Am I right in thinking that the order of animal noises was based on each animal being able to eat the one before it, or is that just a figment of my fevered imagination?

...on Scott Walker's album The Drift features the braying of a distressed donkey and includes the line: "I'll punch a donkey in the streets of Galway."

That track off "Meddle" with the howling dog - "Seamus". And "Dogs" off (by Jove) "Animals".

"Sister Seagull" - Be Bop Deluxe....

The Lone Ranger theme had a great whinney from Silver I seem to remember!

(My first two singles were "The Lone Ranger" and "Lone Ranger saves the Boonville Gold" - classics. Not on iTunes oddly enough).

And last but not least, the magnificent "Mr. Ed"!!

Rule 23 of Word bloggery: Every thread, regardless of its topic, has a Bonzos connection just waiting to be made.

Try listening to 'Birdsong' on your DAB radio. It's just that. A channel broadcasting continual birdsong.
Drives your cat mad.

Judy beat Pink Floyd to the sound of whales having used whale song on Farewell To Tarwathie on the Whales and Nightingales album. I don't thing she used Nightingales though.

There are howling wolves at the beginning Michael Jackson's Thriller. Vaughan Toulouse does a passable impression of one on the Department S classic Is Vic There?

How about "Rovers Return" by the Korgis, something I am sure would make even me smile? At a loose end I bought an anthology of the ex-Stackridgers product, finding, surprise, surprise, that it was all claptrap, bar the 2 singles and this novelty. Almost worth 79p, should it be available.
Does the Yip Yip song by Robyn Hitchcock count?

There's one barking on "The Universal" by the Small Faces which could have been recorded in a garden. Certainly sounds like it. There's also one on "Caroline No" by the Beach Boys, isn't there?

Alice In Chains' junky lament - Frogs - gets its title from the croaking amphibians outside the studio, that were eventually dubbed onto the track. Layne Stayley's heroin-inspired lyrics make the song a dark comedown after the optimistic merriment of Paul McCartney's Frog Chorus.

Frogs and insects seldom feature on the same record, such is the east/west coast rivalry that exists between the two species.

There are chirping crickets all over the beginning of Santana's creepy Eternal Caravan of Reincarnation. Crickets (different ones - not session crickets) make another appearance in the aftermath of Tool's Disgustipated - track 69 on Undertow!

Disgustipated also includes baaaing sheep, over which vocalist, Maynard James Keenan, in full evangelical preacher mode, relates how an angel of the Lord snatched him from his place of slumber and transported him to "the spaces betwixt the air itself." Whereupon he gazed down upon Midwest American farmland and heard the cries of the carrots as they awaited the coming of harvest day. Sadly there are no attempts to replicate the cries of the carrots, but Keenan describes them as "tortured screams."

It strikes me that a lot animals end up on records because they happened to be hanging around at the time and someone in the band thought that it would be a good idea if they joined-in on backing vocals. I imagine it's quite rare for a band to ‘order-out' for a specific creature. Pink Floyd seem to be an exception. It's typically ostentatious of them to put a whale on one of their songs. They probably keep it in the small Eastern European sea, with a coastline designed by Storm Thorgerson, that they purchased with the royalties from Atom Heart Mother.

What this thread ignores are the numerous non-vocal creatures, who blend-in all too well with the background, but exert a Bez-like influence on the music being recorded. There may be actual chameleons all over the mix of Culture Club's - Karma Chameleon. Until a definitive audiophile edition of the song is released, you will never hear their scaly croaks, so well camouflaged are they against tone of the harmonica.

Dog barking at the start of "Been Caught Stealing"

I'm amazed these animals haven't been ticked off yet, not that I can think where (or why) they would put in an appearance.

A Lion (or big cats generally)
A Dolphin (or similar)
Any Sheep

Best version is in fact Beth Ortons - only my opinion of course.
Every Grain of sand on Dylans Bootlegs series has a dog barking away in the background and very irritating it is too!!

...by The Divine Comedy has some very nice sounds of, erm, dogs and horses on it.

Song for the Whales on an album by Old and New Dreams (Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell). As I recall, this track largely consisted of rather poorly recorded whale song - listened to it once, pressed 'reject' thereafter.

...by Blur has goats or sheep at the start. I should really know the difference, being Welsh.

'Worlds Apart' by ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead has a wonderful cacophony of birds at the end. It all sounds rather dramatic, but the whole effect is rather undermined by the sudden interjection of a chicken. Always gives me a chuckle.

On a related chucklesome note, Half Man Half Biscuit once produced a mock album cover for 'And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Bread' by The Ducks. Genius.

There's a dog on 'The Dog', and a wolf on 'Shadow Of Love', and Turkey noises on 'The Turkey Song' (but that may be the Captain)