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Almost every creature you see, besides the elephants, walk on two legs, like me.

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"walks".

Every creature you see walks. (Each one walks)
All the creatures you see walk. (They walk)

But there are a couple of other problems.

Your elephants seem to be walking on two legs! The words 'apart from' might be less ambiguous than 'besides'. As FumbleFingers said recently, 'To some extent, besides is a "positive polarity" element and apart from is a "negative polarity" element.'

"every creature you see, besides the elephants" suggests "as well as the elephants."
"every creature you see, apart from the elephants" means "except the elephants."

We usually say animals walk on so many feet, but have so many legs.
"Almost every creature you see, apart from the elephants, walks on two feet (or "has two legs"), like me."

If the proximity of the plural 'elephants' and the singular 'walks' sounds a little awkward, you might re-arrange the sentence:

"Apart from the elephants, almost every creature you see walks on two feet, like me."

That is what many or most people would say. But for the grammar to be top-notch, it should be: "...walks on two feet, as I do."

They are two-legged, like me.
They have two legs, as I do.

"Apart from the elephants, almost every creature you see walks on two feet, as I do."
or
"Apart from the elephants, almost every creature you see has two legs, as I do."

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