New Delhi runway turns into a zoo  The mix of animals, traffic
and people in New Delhi is fascinating any day of the week. When
I lived there, pulling up alongside an elephant at a traffic
light did happen. Avoiding hitting the cows that meandered at
the sides of the roads was a daily venture.  Once, our car
grazed a cow just as it twitched its hind end towards traffic.
When the side-view mirror was snapped off, my husband quipped,
“It must have been in a reflective mood.”  There was one section
where fruit bats the size of dogs hung upside down from trees,
and another part where monkeys gathered in large groups. Camels
also meandered through the neighborhood. Hiring one for a kid’s
birthday party was standard.  Recently, New Delhi has become
more zoo-like with the heavy rains. As animals are getting
flooded out of their natural habitat homes, they’ve looked for
higher ground and have found it at the New Delhi airport on the
runways. Lizards, jackals and birds have shown up in large
enough numbers that they’v