Zoophobia

For the webcomic, see 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.^[1] As mentioned before by Sigmund Freud, an animal phobia is one of the most frequent psychoneurotic diseases among children.^[2]

Phobia	Condition
Ailurophobia	fear of cats
Arachnophobia	fear of arachnids
Batrachophobia	fear of amphibians
Chiroptophobia	fear of bats
Cynophobia	fear of dogs
Entomophobia	fear of insects
Equinophobia	fear of horses
Ichthyophobia	fear of fish
Katsaridaphobia	fear of cockroaches
Lepidopterophobia	fear of butterflies and/or moths
Melissophobia	fear of bees
Molluscophobia	fear of snails and slugs
Musophobia	fear of mice and rats
Ophidiophobia	fear of snakes
Ornithophobia	fear of birds
Ostraconophobia	fear of shellfish
Pachydermophobia	fear of elephants
Ranidaphobia	fear of frogs
Scoliodentosaurophobia	fear of lizards, geckos
Vermiphobia	fear of worms

See also

• Arachnophobia
• Entomophobia
• Ophidiophobia
• Ornithophobia
• List of phobias