Maroon 5 'Animals' video angers sexual assault support group

NEW YORK, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- The Maroon 5 music video for the song "Animals" is being slammed by the sexual assault support group RAINN for being "dangerous" and a "stalker's fantasy."

"Maroon 5's video for 'Animals' is a dangerous depiction of a stalker's fantasy," RAINN Vice President of Communications Katherine Hull Fliflet said in a statement. "And no one should ever confuse the criminal act of stalking with romance. The trivialization of these serious crimes, like stalking, should have no place in the entertainment industry."

RAINN, the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, took issue with lead singer Adam Levine's obsessive depiction in the video as he stalks a woman -- his real-life wife Behati Prinsloo -- while surrounded by animal carcasses and photographs of Prinsloo.

RAINN is not the only one upset about the video. Maroon 5 fans took to Twitter to voice their disappointment with the band for their "creepy" and "disturbing" video.

I doubt there's anything more disturbing than @maroon5 's "Animals"? What's with the serial killer like stalking and the carcass hugging

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— Lina Lafont (@Lina_Lafont) October 1, 2014

Maroon 5's Animals video is so weird and disturbing

— Alexandra Tripoli (@alexandraaa9) October 1, 2014

Just saw Maroon 5's video for 'Animals'. The idea of millions of little girls seeing that is disturbing and gross. #Maroon5animals

— David (@dFhimz) October 1, 2014

"Animals" is the second single from Maroon 5's fifth studio album, V and was released on Aug. 22.