Animal phobias
Fears of animals and creatures, from spiders and snakes to dogs, birds and mice.
- Fear of animals (zoophobia)
- Fear of ants (myrmecophobia)
- Fear of bats (chiroptophobia)
- Fear of bees (apiphobia)
- Fear of birds (ornithophobia)
- Fear of butterflies and moths (lepidopterophobia)
- Fear of cats (ailurophobia)
- Fear of chickens (alektorophobia)
- Fear of cockroaches (katsaridaphobia)
- Fear of dogs (cynophobia)
- Fear of fish (ichthyophobia)
- Fear of frogs and other amphibians (batrachophobia)
- Fear of horses (equinophobia)
- Fear of insects (entomophobia)
- Fear of rats and mice (musophobia)
- Fear of reptiles and amphibians (herpetophobia)
- Fear of sharks (galeophobia)
- Fear of snakes (ophidiophobia)
- Fear of spiders (arachnophobia)
- Fear of wasps (spheksophobia)
- Fear of worms (helminthophobia)
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