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Those fucking frogs that hatch their babies out of the holes in their back, those goddamn things are the reason I have trypophobia
Why did you have to remind me they exist 
Hippopotamus, deadliest animal in the entire African continent
This is mosquito erasure
The Japanese giant "murder" hornet. The sting feels like hell and 50 people die annually, Just no.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolopendra_subspinipes
I've never seen one, I'm terrified
I only clicked on this because I was like centipedes aren't animals it won't be a centipede.
It was. I feel so crawly and icky and EGGHHHHH now why 
Insects are animals..? Like even corals and anemones are animals.
Horses freak me out. Dead eyes. Like the zombie version of a donkey.
I dislike how they are large, scared of everything, and highly unintelligent. Walking behind a horse is just begging for a dented skull.
The tree octopus. My friend went hiking and had one jump on him. He was fine, but his arm was numb for days.
Ai doesn't known what side the suckers go on.
Lmao
Jellyfish. They're so deadly and so oblivious to how deadly they are. They scary. The entire ocean is scary.
Cool dog
Looking at the mouth of a lamprey makes me feel extremely uncomfortable
The chihuahua on the train today. That boy was yappin. Spooked me solid
You're not allowed to say "humans" that's too obvious
Eric Burdon
Humans 
When I was a toddler my parents went hiking in the woods with me and accidentally stumbled their way in between a moose and her calves, which is not somewhere you ever want to be. So being charged by like a 400 kg moose is kind of a formative memory.
Venenous giant centipede. Like, big scary dangerous bug. Or the scarabs from The Mummy if they count (they don't).
Oh also blue ringed octopus. I know fatalities are rare but yeah was always on edge when playing in rock pools as a kid.
im pretty scared of kangaroos, half of them are like cute little rabbit dogs and then there's randomly some of them that are like, steroid-jacked dog murderers with a secret tailspring disemboweling kick attack, the fact that the scary ones exist and are the same species as the cute ones means that you can never be sure if interacting with the cute ones will attract the ire of the scary ones. their physiology is way different from other mammals, if a kangaroo invented a car it would not have wheels but gigantic spring loaded skis and you would pilot it from a dark and warm mucosal sac. i actually think that the tall aliens in halo are probably canonically kangaroos
Scariest animal I’ve ever seen was a bull elephant in musth. Imagine an elephant but with 100x the testosterone, pissing ketones out of its permanent boner and oozing protein out of its temporal glands which are so swollen they’re pressing on his eyes causing constant pain and pouring into his mouth. They charge and kill pretty much everything shit is like Jurassic Park
its a shark or saltwater crocodile, combine being out of our element (land) with the size/speed of a big cat or bear. though tbh a polar bear makes a decent case independently
Polar bears one of (the?) only species that has zero compunctions about hunting people. If it sees you it sees a meal.
I have a lifelong phobia of baleen whales. The ones with teeth are cool though - they're just big dolphins.
Chimpanzees. They're hateful little bastards that both know how to and deeply desire causing you the most misery imaginable. They'll tear iff faces and chew your hands and your balls off.
And they're fucking jacked and smart enough to make plots against you. They'll try to trick new zookeepers by hiding behind doors so they can attack them.
Fuck chimpanzees, I hate those motherfuckers so much
Yikes, I didn't know they did that shit! My local zoo has a no direct contact policy with their gorillas and chimps. Gotta hand it to Jane Goodall!
Gorillas are more straight to business. They usually dont wanna fuck with you, but if they do, they'll just flatten you and be done with it.
Zoo gorillas though, I dunno. They're probably bored and pissed off
Venomous snakes. Black Mamba, Taipans, Death Adders, Bushmasters, Sea Snakes, Cobras, etc. They're cool and all, but I've got a healthy respect for them.
I got to go to the Serpentarium in Wilmington NC a few times and they've got a lot of the most deadly snakes out there. The currator has survived multiple Bushmaster bites and looks like Robert Downey Jr. When I was was there once and he was feeding some snakes, someone asked him if he ever gets scared, dude just shrugged and said "I've already had so much to drink today, I don't really care"... 😳
aquarium dolphin
I'd have to go with something like tapeworms. Drawing a blank on specific genus and species since it's been years since my microbiology courses, but the things acute parasitosis can do to the body is some body horror stuff. They're so unassuming and yet everywhere.
That said, there is a part of me that thinks worms
spoiler
in the eyes has to be pretty wicked to experience POV.
Oh yeah, parasites are crazy scary. Bot flies freak me out
You Aussies should know what drop bears are.
Hippo
There are a lot of scary animals out there, but I think the worst that I have to come into contact with regularly is the centipede. Definitely not the worst, but when one of those fuckers darts out from underneath a bookcase or something like some demon from hell, only to disappear under your nightstand or something it’s truly a horrible feeling. You know it’s there but there’s nothing you can do, you’re never seeing that fucker again unless he wants to be seen.
They’re not that bad, they just look demonic. Fortunately I don’t have to regularly deal with very many scary animals, this is sorta the worst I have it.
saltwater croc, it's a fucking 1000kg, 6 metre long dinosaur