Have you ever encountered an animal on any ride?

Have you ever encountered any sort of animal? Such as hitting a deer, runaway rat, that fun stuff.

I've gotten hit by a bug in the hand on RoS!

Yes we saw a deer while riding the Knoebel's train once.

Lots of them on Great Adventure's safari ride.

As for unintended animal encounters, seagulls on just about everything at Cedar Point.

A Bug flew in my mouth on Eagle backwards

There was some sort of giant bird of prey making a nest on the top of Alpengeist and he would get very angry every time the train would come by and threaten us!

June 2006. The first (public) TPR Tour to the UK. Thorpe Park. Stealth.

We hit a bird, after coming down from the top hat. Feathers everywhere.

Thankfully, nobody got hit in the face with it. Just feathers.

EDIT to add The Event: http://www.themeparkreview.com/uk2006/thorpepark/thorpepark1.htm

A Bug flew in my mouth on Eagle backwards

I'd say that counts.

And I once saw a mama deer and two baby fawns just after the second lift on Loch Ness Monster at BGW, circa 2009. So cute.

When I rode El Toro . . . in the grass field where Rolling Thunder used to be, I saw a flock of Canada Geese (somehow, I don't think feeding Geese funnel cake would be a good idea)

You can see deer grazing near the tracks of the Busch Gardens railroad all the time.

There was a giant bear on Splash Mountain.

This is a neat thread.

I'm going to be that guy at first and say "Killimanjaro safari", but I have other examples too.

I saw a deer by the tracks on Screamin eagle at SFStL while I was riding.

I also once saw a deer and its fawn (forget the proper sciencey name) on the train at worlds of fun by Prowler

Lastly at my home park Funplex (Omaha), I saw a bird actually sit in a seat and ride a tilt a whirl. It rode it three cycles in a row.

I didn't get any notification about this thread, but I'm glad I stopted by, all of these are pure gold

I once encountered a levitating, glow-in-the-dark donkey while riding Beast at night.

It was floating atop the brake shed and going like, "HEEEEEEEEE HOOOOOONGK! HEEEEEEEEE HOOOOOONGK!"

True story not even joking

There was this one time during a night ride on Maverick at Cedar Point. Some how a deer got in the launch tunnel and decided to race the train on the launch, (Cheetah Hunt style) the deer almost won!! The one thing it wasn't prepared for was the wall at the end of the launch track... Poor deer.

Rumor has it, if you look closely you can still see the holes in the wood from the deer's antlers... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Lol, I like this thread. I encountered a stray cat that somehow made it on the lift catwalks on Batman the Ride at sfstl.

While waiting in Top Thrill Dragster's line during a breakdown, I watched a group of seagulls play Chicken on Corkscrew's track. None of them managed to get hit, though.

Also, I must've eaten half a dozen bugs during the two days I spent there last June.

Angry wasps on Mamba's lift hill. Sadly, that's the most thrilling part of the ride.

The second helix on Superman: Ride of Steel at Six Flags America; saw some deer

I saw a deer near the helix on Nitro.

And I saw a dog ride the train at Knoebels.

^ Lucky dog.

There was a giant bear on Splash Mountain.

A squirrel climbed onto the tracks (and quickly climbed off, of course) when I rode Medusa at SFDK once