{{Short description|Irrational fear of animal species}} {{For|the webcomic|ZooPhobia{{!}}''ZooPhobia''}} '''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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Morales-Brown |first=Peter |date=2020-07-27 |title=Zoophobia: Causes, symptoms, and treatment |url=https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/zoophobia |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=www.medicalnewstoday.com |language=en}}</ref> As mentioned before by Sigmund Freud, an animal phobia is one of the most frequent psychoneurotic diseases among children.<ref name="fdict">Nandor Fodor, Frank Gaynor, "Freud: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis", 2004: {{ISBN|0-7607-5301-6}} (initial publ. 1950), [https://books.google.com/books?id=HNqaBjvvp-AC&pg=PA206&dq=%22zoophobia+is%22+-wikipedia&lr=&sig=BhWtXO4Py0wxvsCBOpDx9Ja5jck#PPA206,M1 article "Zoophobia, infantile", pp. 205-206]</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" |+ !Phobia !Condition |- |Ailurophobia |fear of cats (or felines) |- |Alektorophobia |fear of chickens |- |Anatidaephobia |fear of ducks |- |Arachnophobia |fear of arachnids (such as spiders) |- |Batrachophobia |fear of frogs and other amphibians |- |Cynophobia |fear of dogs |- |Entomophobia |fear of insects |- |Ichthyophobia |fear of fish |- |Herpetophobia |fear of reptiles |- |Hippophobia |fear of horses |- |Lepidopterophobia |fear of lepidopterans (butterflies/moths) |- |Myrmecophobia |fear of ants |- |Melissophobia/apiphobia |fear of bees |- |Musophobia |fear of mice and rats |- |Ophidiophobia |fear of snakes |- |Ornithophobia |fear of birds |- |Ostraconophobia |fear of shellfish |- |Spheksophobia |fear of wasps |- |Vermiphobia |fear of worms |}
==See also== *Arachnophobia *Entomophobia *Ophidiophobia *Ornithophobia *List of phobias
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