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Reptiles!? If you were to expand that to the general case of being afraid of any small creepy-crawley, then I can believe it. But I kinda like reptiles.
I understand what you're talking about, though. I saw a video one time of monkeys who had been raised in a lab setting and had never interacted with any other animal, but who get various toys and other objects left in their enclosure to entertain them. One day the researcher working with them left a rubber snake in their enclosure, and they freaked right out, and "killed" the snake. How'd they know what it "was"? There must be something instinctual going on there.
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