animal phobia

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.

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" |+ !Phobia !Condition |- |Ailurophobia |fear of cats |- |Alektorophobia |fear of chickens |- |Anatidaephobia |fear of ducks |- |Arachnophobia |fear of arachnids |- |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 butterflies and/or moths |- |Myrmecophobia |fear of ants |- |Melissophobia |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 |}