List of Animal Phobias
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Animal phobia is a fear caused by the presence or thought of a specific animal that poses little or no danger at all. Phobias about animals are very common, there are a lot of people who have fears even to domesticated animals like dogs and cats, it is even harder for them because there are so many of these animals around.
Some people are even convinced that they will have a panic attack if they ever see a film or see these creatures on TV or just even looking at pictures. Some people who would not even touch a book with pictures of snakes or frogs on it.
Below is a list of the most common animal phobias around.
Fear of:
- Animals - Zoophobia
- Ants - Myrmecophobia
- Bees - Apiphobia
- Birds - Ornithophobia
- Bulls - Taurophobia
- Cats - Ailurophobia
- Chickens - Alektorophobia
- Dogs - Cynophobia
- Fish - Ichthyophobia
- Frogs - Batrachophobia
- Horses - Equinophobia
- Insects - Entomophobia
Fear of :
- Lice - Pediculophobia
- Otters - Lutraphobia
- Reptiles - Herpetophobia
- Sharks - Selacophobia
- Shellfish - Ostraconophobia
- Snakes - Ophidiophobia
- Spiders- Arachnophobia
- Termites - Isopterophobia
- Toads - Bufonophobia
- Wasps - Spheksophobia
- Wild animals - Agrizoophobia
- Worms - Helminthophobia
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I knew a librarian who was so afraid of snakes she could not walk down the aisle that held books about snakes - wow! So what you mentioned is so very true.
This was fun to read. Thanks!
I am fearful of snakes to the point that I have a recurring dream of killing them.
Today I met a woman in church who had a phobia of lizzard. I discovered it as I turned to shake her hand and she frooze. She later explained that she was afraid of lizzards. I was wearing a gold and diamond lizzard brooch. Maybe I should have aploggized, but I was taken aback by that...
What is it about snakes ? Is it the way they move or is it the fact that some are poisonous. I have done my best not to pass down my fear to my children. I promise you, I did not let on that I was afraid. I never allowed a snake to keep me from doing what I had to do in the yard etc. Still, I have a daughter who is much more afraid of snakes than I. To see a snake almost cripples her. Maybe it is hereditary ?
I do not fear what I am. We as humans are far more barbaric than any animal.
i'm very very afraid of worms.i'd scream if somebody said the word!i would not let my skin touch any area which a worm has been to.i would stay in a room if i saw a worm for fear of it coming into contact with my skin.i would stare at objects which look like worms to make sure it isn't and even if it isn't i would think that it was moving.even if it wasn't.i can't look at vdeo's showing worms or pics of 'em.
i am afraid of cockroaches or anything else like that. when we go abroad there is always cockroaches in our flat. somtimes there dead but usually there alive. i really hate them!!!!!i also hate grasshoppers and spiders.id run a mile if i saw a spider or a grasshopper or just scream the place down.
im terrifed of birds lol im on youtube for it
im afraid of CLOWNS!
i have animal phobia. but mainly dogs.
and i just moved to a new place where EVERYONE has dogs around, so its a problem for me =/
I have a huge fear of live turkeys, but I can't find a name for it. Anyone know?
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Susan Ng says:
6 months ago
I'm afraid of spiders. *shiver!* Hehe. But I think Teacher Michelle (Ripplemaker) has a lot of these phobias! Hehe! :D