From Season 1 onward, in addition to Muppet and cartoon inserts, Sesame Street made extensive use of film footage of live animals. These films were often either accompanied by a purely orchestral score (usually by Joe Raposo), or occasionally turned into a narrative song, often "performed" by the animal itself through voice-over.
Picture | Summary | Earliest Known Appearance | Animals |
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Four legs. | Episode 0008 | Wombat from Australia | |
"Swinging Gibbons" | Episode 0009 | Gibbons | |
Parts of an elephant. | Episode 0034 | Elephant | |
"Somebody Come and Play" | Episode 0047 | Baby orangutan | |
"Dressed Up" | Episode 0355 | Various birds | |
A running warthog. | Episode 0406 | Warthog | |
Music by Joe Raposo | Episode 0415 | Hippopotamus | |
File:There's a Bird on Me!.JPG | "There's a Bird on Me" | Episode 0536 | Birds, rhinoceros, giraffes, elephants, etc. |
A flock of flamingos. | Episode 0817 | Flamingos | |
"I'm an Aardvark" | Episode 2125 | Aardvark |