Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm afraid of animals.
When I was a kid I was always afraid of small dogs, because they always seemed like the ones that would attack.
Some people think that I would be afraid of them, but I'm never, ever afraid of an animal. I just get excited, and some that are dangerous, I think, 'Ooh, what's going to happen?' and things like that.
I had the fear of heights when I was young, along with many other fears and phobias, including the fear of dogs, bees, horses, and blood.
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights. All other primates, when they're scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone.
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.
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