Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People is a 2003 EP that was originally released with the DVD of the same name. This EP features five then-new songs written and recorded specifically for this release. Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People shows the return of drummer Tim Alexander to the lineup, who had previously left the band in 1996. He joins Claypool and LaLonde in performing on the EP. Claypool has claimed that two of the five new songs on the EP were written within the first 45 minutes of the lineup working together again, and "Pilcher's Squad" was said to have been written and recorded within a single afternoon.