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Animal love
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Animal love or animal friendship are emotions of fondness that lead to bonding with non-human species. The love for animals stems from many causes. For many people, bonding to a pet or animal is a natural and valued process - children often do this very deeply, as do many adults who consider themselves animal lovers. Strong ethical stances may also involve love for animals - for example, in connection with or related to conservationism, environmentalism, and/or veganism/vegetarianism. One can love animals out of a general respect for nature and the environment, or become a vegetarian or conservationist out of one's love for animals. Terminology Separate terms for various animals: *hippophilia/hippophile: Attraction/attracted to horses *ornithophilia: Love of birds *ailurophilia: Love of felines The Greek word zoophilia means "animal love" when literally translated, and in Greek it originally has the notion of animal friendship. In modern day colloquial English however, the word zoophilia is nearly always used to describe a sexual attraction towards animals. Trivia * Animal Love is also the name of a German documentary from 1995 by filmmaker Ulrich Seidl in which he shows the problematic lives of some animal lovers. See Also
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