A few years back, I recall driving through Gatineau Park (north of Ottawa and popular for hiking, skiing and snowshoeing) and a bear came charging out of the woods and across the road and back in. Would not have wanted to get in the way and since it was in the fall, the bear was likely foraging for food, so probably would have been even more dangerous to get near it.
Many decades ago, may wife and I were driving through the Trinity Alps in northern California. On a country road, she said “Look at the dogs playing in the road up there.”
“Uh, dear, those aren’t dogs.”
Now she’s out tempting mountain lions in the hills hereabouts.