Zoomania
noun
a p-ssion for animals
word origin
zoo- ‘animal’
historical examples
his princ-p-l work is zoomania, or the laws of organic life , for which he was accused of atheism.
a biographical dictionary of freethinkers of all ages and nations joseph mazzini wheeler
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