Have you ever had a run in with a dangerous wild animal?

[AbsentmindedWoman]

I'm sipping my coffee and dreaming about going camping in the wilderness. Somewhere really remote. It would be awe inspiring, but also in reality I'd be too scared of getting lost or being eaten by some of the local wildlife so will probably never actually do it.

Has anyone been wilderness camping or similar? Did you have any narrow squeaks with snakes/ jaguars/ crocodiles?

[Spied]

I was once witness to two sheep terrorising a man in the Pennines.
Seriously terrifying. They were crazy.

[AbsentmindedWoman]

Gosh, quite a few elephant encounters! I do love elephants.

[OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow]

Grew up in Australia, so what do you think? Earliest one was almost stepping on a brown snake when going for an ice cream, last one was looking up in my hospital bed to see a huge (like side plate) huge spider crawling across the ceiling.

[tiredanddangerous]

A monkey once gave me a dirty look at Trentham Monkey Forest.

[elQuintoConyo]

I was chased down a metro escalator in Barcelona by a giant rat puke.

A seagull nearly bit my hand off going for my toffee apple in Weston Super Mare when I was 6.

And I was, ermm, 'interfered with' by an inquisitive octopus as I was swimming off Formentera I was sitting naked on some rocks, about to descend into the sea!

[Moondust001]

According to Tiger King there are more big cats in back yards in the States than there are in the whole of Africa, or something equally improbable.

That's not only not improbable, it's utterly a fact. Because tigers don't come from Africa. I did come across one whilst working in India. It was eating the biggest bloody snake I have ever seen. I can't tell you what kind of snake though because I decided not to investigate. Although I got some great photos.

There were a great many snakes in most places I've worked. I just avoided them as I'm not keen on snakes! So I can't tell you what they are as I had no desire to meet them.

[AbsentmindedWoman]

last one was looking up in my hospital bed to see a huge (like side plate) huge spider crawling across the ceiling.

Oh no, not when you're ill and vulnerable in hospital!

[AbsentmindedWoman]

Sometimes I think the really large (huntman, tarantula size) spiders are quite cute in a way.

Yet I cannot deal with big house spiders a fraction of the size

[Calamaribabe]

@SchrodingersImmigrant

My adders now look lame😂😂😂

Omg at some of these animals

How can adders be lame? they have no legs!

[wheresmymojo]

Fucking hell - now googled parktown prawn.

So happy to live in the UK, I'd be a nervous wreck with the crawlers in other countries

[gwenneh]

Yes, but I grew up in the US -- bears, bobcats, and coyotes are regulars.

[AbsentmindedWoman]

@tiredanddangerous

A monkey once gave me a dirty look at Trentham Monkey Forest.

I'm really not keen on monkeys.

[donaldbump]

A guy from the other truck got stepped on in his tent by a hippo. Luckily it just caught the edge of his leg.
Camel spiders in the Sahara. Oh my

[Moondust001]

Oh yes, the scariest one? POLAR BEARS! They look so cute on TV. Vicious, nasty tempered and seriously violent. When I was in alaska we had to carry guns. And I been to many ropey places but nowhere else have guns been compulsory

[Velvian]

New Forest ponies while camping, they are stubborn so and sos. My best friend's geese used to chase us in her garden hissing at us.

So glad not to have many scary creatures in the UK.

[AbsentmindedWoman]

I cannot decide whether those parktown prawns freak me out or not, just don't know what to make of them

[Didiplanthis]

Watching grizzly bears catch salmon in very rural Canada. It was an organised trip and the ranger type person always went to check the viewing platforms for bears before we left the mini bus. With the bear spray. While he was checking the platform mummy bear and 3 baby bears wandered up and started checking out the bus.. when we realised the door was open. Mummy bear standing on her back legs with paws on the window was bigger than the bus. Thankfully the salmon proved more tempting than us...

Also on safari in Africa our mini bus got stuck. It was starting to get dark, we all had to get out and push, as we got back in, a large male lion sauntered past and had clearly been watching us.

I can only assume I'm not appealing to large wild animals ! Since we had kids the nearest we have got to this is fighting for a family changing room at center parks..

[3CCC]

I have a very outing story involving a bull elephant and a bamboo hut. In Zambia

Same trip some elephants tried to stampede us whilst we were canoeing

[Rhannion]

@CPsRus

Yes, I got punched in the face by a young man in Croydon town centre because I wouldn’t step aside to let him past (because I was a women so I should).

I hope you are ok. What a shitting thing

[ASundayWellSpent]

Yes wild boar each of the times we've been camping (live in a European country where they are rife). Dog chased them off both times that we were camping and I think the smell of him put them off when we were in the caravan. Bloody love camping... and DDog

[ElsieMc]

I was driving home on the school run when a large goat was stood in the road in front of me just outside the village. I waited, then beeped my horn and it stood glaring at me. I decided to move it and went to shoo it away when it reared up on its backlegs and started to box me with its hooves. It looked like the devil. The kids' faces were a picture. Suddenly a woman ran towards us and clipped it hard round the head exclaiming it was always doing that. What?

My friend, a farmers daughter, once picked me up in her old mini and it stunk terribly of strong BO. It was because she had her goat in the back taking it to the vets.

Most funny was my MIL complaining that she had just been chased down the back street by an angry monkey. She was actually hurt when she fell and it turned out it belonged to a neighbour. I add this was many years ago. Who keeps a pet monkey other than MJ?

[Rebelwithverysharpclaws]

Wild camping in the Peak District - a herd of cows woke me up trampling my tent down.

[Didiplanthis]

We used to have wild boar in the woods in our rural bit of South East England ! Not seen them for years though...

[TranquilityofSolitude]

When I was 5 my Dad found a dead snake on the road outside (we lived in South Africa). He put it in his rucksack and brought it home to show me. We both sat on the floor on either side of the bag, and when he opened the top a massive cobra shot out and disappeared under a curtain. It was huge! Apparently snakes can appear dead when stunned - thankfully I haven't had any need to make use of this piece of information since I learned it!

[amusedbush]

Looks like I got off lightly by being knocked over by a goat when I was a toddler

I’ve googled some of these beastly creatures and I’m itchy all over. I also didn’t know a boomslang was a real thing; boomslang skin is a potions ingredient in Harry Potter and I’ve been assuming it was made up for the past 20 years