What was the most terrifying animal you encountered?

My wife hahahahaha!

Humans....! Hands down!!

Bear on a trail in the mountains.
Another time while on a vacation hearing a cougar in the bushes growling at us.

A couple of coyote/wolf hybrids charged me as I was walking my 14 year old dog one evening.

Humans

In the wild? Probably a tick. 😅

A huge Grizzly up in the Northwest Territories Canada. Was 12 feet tall on its hind legs. Popped up out of the brush looking at us about 10 feet away.

humans

Once when I was a kid, I went to walk up the stairs to my bedroom. I saw something black curled up on the steps, and at first thought it was a belt. Then it moved.

The next thing I knew, I was standing on the sofa across from the staircase. I got a broom and herded the snake out the front door. I grabbed the shotgun, but by the time I got out, it was gone.

The biggest spider I have ever seen in Australia. It was the size of a horse

Big nasty city rats

A camel spider. The memory gives me shivers.

My first encounter was a Coastal Taipan (King brown as we call it, #3 most venomous in the world I think.) slithered across my bare feet when I was 6.

Copperheads! Those things hide in plain sight. In the leaves, they are almost impossible to spot.

Eastern Copperhead snake
A Coy Dog the size of a German Shepatd

Nearing a ton of gator. But he was just sunning himself and didn't mind me getting in close for eye photos.

A raccoon.

It was a couple of nights after a bunch of them broke into the chicken run and ate all of our chickens. I went out back to have my evening piss on the fence (we have coyotes, so it's not weird), and this fatass raccoon was sitting on the top of the fence, just staring at me.

I know what some of you are thinking. Raccoons are cute. But again, they had just broken into the chicken run and eaten all of our chickens. On top of that, a full grown raccoon can take a chunk out of a human being a square inch in size.

As it turns out, I did exactly what you're supposed to do when you encounter a raccoon. I was standing in front of the motion sensor light, so the light was flashing on and off, and I screamed at the raccoon without moving toward it. Even so, the raccoon didn't run. He casually hopped off the fence and sauntered off into the woods, just to let me know he wasn't scared.

sounds beautiful

A very big angry raccoon. Asi ran down hillside steps at night I came around a corner fast scaring this big raccoon who jump from a tree. I stopped in my tracks as it's hair stood on end as it hunched and hissed. I kept my head and I talked. I say hey I scare u u scare me. U go your way I go mine, he looked at me and slowly started backing up as I did the same. We both went our ways