It's what sound libraries are for - Cheaper and easier than having to come up with your own sounds. It's cool recognising soundbytes while watching/playing something and thinking about which other productions they've been used in.
WoW uses horse and bear soundbytes that seem to be commonly used by many other productions. Half-Life 2's poison zombie uses donkey sounds that I keep hearing pop up elsewhere (like Pirates of the Caribbean).
OWI's slig BS sound is a frog soundbyte that I've heard being used in a couple of other games. One or two of the original scrab sounds come from horse soundbytes.
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