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(Obliquely related to animals or animal parts).

AIDS Wolf
(Animal Collective)
Angry vs. The Bear
An Horse
Apes & Androids
Arctic Monkeys
Atomic Kitten
Band of Horses
(Bat for Lashes)
Bear Hands
Bear in Heaven
Bear vs. Shark
(Be Your Own Pet)
Birdmonster
Birds of Tokyo
Birds of Wales
Black Horse
Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears
Bloody Panda
Breathe Owl Breathe
Caribou [formerly Manitoba]
Catfish Haven
Cat Power
(Common Loon)
Crocodiles
(Crystal Antlers)
Danger Mouse
Daylight’s for the Birds
Deer Tick
Deerhoof
Deerhunter
Department Of Eagles
(Doveman)
Eagles of Death Metal
Eagull*Seagull
(Earl Greyhound)
Elefant
El Perro Del Mar
Fleet Foxes
Foals
Frightened Rabbit
Gorillaz
Grizzly Bear
Horse Feathers
HORSE the Band
Hot Snakes
Jaguar Love
Japanther
Kid Koala
Kittens Ablaze
LadyHawke
Le Tigre
Lion Fever
Lungfish
Minus The Bear
Modest Mouse
(Mongrel)
Moth! Fight!
Mouse on Mars
New Young Pony Club
Night Horse
Noah And The Whale
Panda Bear
Panthers
Part Chimp
(Patrick Wolf)
Pedro the Lion
Peter and the Wolf
(Pig Out)
(Plants and Animals)
(Red Sparowes)
(Rob Crow)
Seabird
Sea Wolf
(Simian Mobile Disco)
Stars Like Fleas
Stereo Pony
(Super Furry Animals)
Sweet Cobra
Tarantula
(The Antlers)
The Bees
The Bird and the Bee
The Deer Tracks
The Dear and the Headlights
The Deer in Your Headlights
The Detroit Cobras
The Donkeys
The Doves
The Eels
The Field Mice
The Fruit Bats
The Late Birds
The Mountain Goats
The Octopus Project
The Ponys
The Reindeer Section
The Wooden Birds
The Wrens
These Arms Are Snakes
They Shoot Horses Don’t They
Toadies
Tortoise
Toy Horses
Turbowolf
Tweakbird
Ultra Dolphins
Wallis Birds
We Are Wolves
White Rabbits
White Whale
Wild Yaks
Wolf Eyes
Wolf Parade
Wolfmother

Fake/Mythical/Extinct Animals:

Dinosaur Jr.
Dinowalrus
Goblin Cock
Mastodon
Mogwai
Phoenix
Pterodactyl
The Dodos
The Muggabears
(The Raveonettes)
Thing-One
Thunderbirds are Now!
The Unicorns
USAISAMONSTER
Vampire Hands
Vampire Weekend

Sources:

http://www.OhMyRockness.com

http://www.Insound.com

http://forums.frankiedettoriracing.com/archive/index.php/t-26819.html

http://musicforants.com/blog/?p=90

http://beatcrave.com/2009-02-05/indie-rocks-5-most-overused-animal-names/

Update 8.4.09
Moved The Dodos and The Raveonettes to Extinct/Mythical
Parens around Simian Mobile Disco and Super Furry Animals

Update 8.5.09
Pattern Is Movement is playing this Friday in West Philly with Whales and Cops and
The Owl Stations.

Ps. I know “bat” is also a verb and I know vampires are not technically animals.

Update: 8.10.09
Updated name count. Added band name tags.

Update: 11.24.09

New Offshoot: Skeletons -
Band of Skulls
(Beach Fossils)
(Dead Man’s Bones)
Skeletonwitch
Skeleton Key

New Fake/Mythical/Extinct:
Dinosaur Feathers
Graffiti Monsters
(Humanbeast)
That Ghost
(Zoos of Berlin)