# Zoophobia

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{{Short description|Irrational fear of animal species}}
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'''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](/source/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>

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!Phobia
!Condition
|-
|[Ailurophobia](/source/Ailurophobia)
|fear of cats (or felines)
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|[Alektorophobia](/source/Alektorophobia)
|fear of chickens
|-
|[Anatidaephobia](/source/Anatidaephobia)
|fear of ducks
|-
|[Arachnophobia](/source/Arachnophobia)
|fear of arachnids (such as spiders)
|-
|[Batrachophobia](/source/Batrachophobia)
|fear of frogs and other amphibians
|-
|[Cynophobia](/source/Cynophobia)
|fear of dogs
|-
|[Entomophobia](/source/Entomophobia)
|fear of insects
|-
|[Ichthyophobia](/source/Ichthyophobia)
|fear of fish
|-
|[Herpetophobia](/source/Herpetophobia)
|fear of reptiles
|-
|[Hippophobia](/source/Hippophobia)
|fear of horses
|-
|[Lepidopterophobia](/source/Lepidopterophobia)
|fear of lepidopterans (butterflies/moths)
|-
|[Myrmecophobia](/source/Myrmecophobia)
|fear of ants
|-
|[Melissophobia/apiphobia](/source/Melissophobia)
|fear of bees
|-
|[Musophobia](/source/Musophobia)                   
|fear of mice and rats
|-
|[Ophidiophobia](/source/Ophidiophobia)
|fear of snakes
|-
|[Ornithophobia](/source/Ornithophobia)
|fear of birds
|-
|[Ostraconophobia](/source/Ostraconophobia)
|fear of shellfish
|-
|[Spheksophobia](/source/Spheksophobia)
|fear of wasps
|-
|[Vermiphobia](/source/Vermiphobia)
|fear of worms
|}

==See also==
*[Arachnophobia](/source/Arachnophobia)
*[Entomophobia](/source/Entomophobia)
*[Ophidiophobia](/source/Ophidiophobia)
*[Ornithophobia](/source/Ornithophobia)
*[List of phobias](/source/List_of_phobias)

==References==
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