Zoophobia, or animal phobia, is the irrational fear or aversion towards non-human animals. Zoophobia is the general negative reaction to animals, but it is usually divided into many subgroups, each being of a specific type of zoophobia. Although zoophobia as a whole is quite rare, types of the fear are common. As mentioned before by Sigmund Freud, an animal phobia is one of the most frequent psychoneurotic diseases among children.
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!Phobia
!Condition
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|Ailurophobia
|fear of cats (or felines)
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|Alektorophobia
|fear of chickens
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|Anatidaephobia
|fear of ducks
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|Arachnophobia
|fear of arachnids (such as spiders)
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|Batrachophobia
|fear of frogs and other amphibians
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|Cynophobia
|fear of dogs
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|Entomophobia
|fear of insects
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|Ichthyophobia
|fear of fish
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|Herpetophobia
|fear of reptiles
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|Hippophobia
|fear of horses
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|Lepidopterophobia
|fear of lepidopterans (butterflies/moths)
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|Myrmecophobia
|fear of ants
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|Melissophobia/apiphobia
|fear of bees
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|Musophobia
|fear of mice and rats
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|Ophidiophobia
|fear of snakes
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|Ornithophobia
|fear of birds
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|Ostraconophobia
|fear of shellfish
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|Spheksophobia
|fear of wasps
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|Vermiphobia
|fear of worms
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See also
- Arachnophobia
- Entomophobia
- Ophidiophobia
- Ornithophobia
- List of phobias