Forrest Galante has faced off with the worlds scariest animals but this is the creature he fears the most

Forrest Galante travels the planet to discover animals.Me, on the board of the ASPCA for years, I have a dog.

I love animals.So is he brave or just nuts?“Last month a great white shark charged me.

My heart jumped into my throat.I screamed, hid behind a rock, then exited the water,” Galante tells me.

“Look, I grew up in Zimbabwe.My family ran safari businesses.

I worked with animals when I was 6 and never did anything else.I couldn’t name three famous artists, but I know how to track a mountain lion.”OK, so once as a houseguest out west, I got up at 5 a.m.

All glass windows.Standing on the other side — this giant, huge black bear staring at me.

I was terrified.He was working the handle to get inside.Galante tells me: “Bears.

If it’s black, fight back.If brown, lie down, if white, say goodnight.

Fight a black bear immediately and likely they let you go.”“My terror is parasites.I travel all over, drink suspicious water, eat whoknowswhat, get bitten by insects and parasites,” he says.

“Been knocked down by parasitic infections.Things you can’t see can kill you the most easily.”I told him that my friend’s tiny dog was killed by a coyote.“Do not walk at night with a small dog.

Keep it on a leash.A coyote will not attack an adult human but they like skunks and raccoons, which are same as your small dog or cat.

Do not let yours run into the bushes,” he says.“It’s situational.

If I come over a rise and am on a hippo’s game trail between him and water, that’s a bad situation.If a hippo’s lazily wallowing in a wet pool, OK.To capture big game? Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email.

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