INDIAN AIRLINER hits buffalo during take-off from Surat airport. And this: "On other occasions, reports said jackals, antelopes, peacocks, porcupines, snakes, monkeys, foxes and dogs have strayed onto runways."

Oddly enough, it's not all that uncommon. When I was learning to fly, I had to abort two landings to avoid a deer and a coyote. The deer fled before I would have touched down, but the coyote was determined to play 'chicken'.