Kindergarten Children’s Perception of Animals Focusing on the Look and Fear of Animals*

The study is focusing on the finding out the children’s perceiving of animals from the view of look and fear. The additional aims were to find out the influence of gender and age on the perceiving of animals from the view of look and fear. The sample size was created by the 27 Czech kindergarten children from two kindergartens. The number of 5 years old children was 13 and rest was 6-years old children. The number of boys was 17 and number of girls was 10. The procedure included face-to-face closed interview with every children individually. The ten colored pictures with animals were presented to children. The questions were focused on the identification of animals, evaluation of animals according the look and the fear. There was not find out significant influence of gender and age on the results. In the conclusion of study are suggested some implications.