Most Dangerous Animal You Have Come in Contact With in the Wild? (no snakes)

Bobcat when I was a teenager in the woods by my house. All I had was a hatchet. We both went our separate ways.

Ravenous quails in southeast texas. Did NOT know birds have teeth

Mountain lion in Co during muzzleloader season.

caribeen reef sharks, about 7 or 8 of them while diving in the bahamas

Almost got T-boned in a tree stand one morning by a flying turkey. Saw my life flash before my eyes.

I have had numerous intentional run ins with Alligators as a kid. We used to catch them Steve Irwin style.

In HS my friend had an old bull we would provoke to chase us, but the scariest was a bear in Rocky Mountain national. It was eating berries several hundred yards away. Disappeared while I was out taking pics of it then it stood up on it's hind legs about 100 yards from me. He may have been okay but it was too close for me.

A moose in rut and a cow moose with a calf that I was stupid enough to chase when I was about 15

Got my arse completely whipped by an emu once.

It had escaped from a farm and we found it on a place I was hunting. We knew where it came from, so devised a plan to return it as a good gesture. It was not really wild, and you could walk up within 10 ft or so before it would take a couple steps away. I'm not sure about the best way to catch a 100lb bird, but I promise you it isn't roping it. When you are tied on to a bird that size, with feet like clubs, it's an indescribable feeling. And for some reason, my mind couldn't tell my hands to let go of the rope as the bastard clubbed me over and over with feet that felt like bricks. If it wouldn't have knocked me out, I wouldn't have dropped the rope, and he likely would have killed me.

Now days, someone would have videoed it and I'd be an internet sensation. As it stood, the guy I was hunting with just stood against a tree and laughed.

GDCK