Question: Has there ever been a time where a certain species had freaked you out?

Becky Thomas answered on 11 Jun 2018:

Yes, many times! I was in South Africa with one of my students once when a bull elephant charged at us (thankfully he didn’t push our car over), it was a very scary experience, but he was just trying to defend where he lived. In Malaysia I was once chased by a macaque which was after my ice cream… they got fed a lot by tourists locally and so had become very tame and brave. After a minute I realised that he wouldn’t give up, so I gave him my ice cream and he ran off to enjoy it!