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] Zoophobia is almost never towards mammals, but instead towards non-mammal creatures. A list of common zoophobias is shown below.
| 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 |