📚 Animal Behavior

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with animal behavior on their catalogue record, first published between 1705 and 2017, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject animal behavior in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 6,025 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
The Human Zoo	Desmond Morris	1705	57
Born Free	Joy Adamson	1960	28
The primates	Sarel Eimerl	1965	27
In the shadow of man	Jane Goodall	1971	26
Illustrated Catwatching	Desmond Morris	1985	21
The naturalist in La Plata	W. H. Hudson	1892	19
Aus dem Leben der Bienen	Karl von Frisch	1927	18
Animal behavior	John Alcock	1975	18
The Trials of Life	David Attenborough	1990	18
Living Free	Joy Adamson	1961	17
The man who listens to horses	Monty Roberts	1996	15
King Solomon's Ring	Konrad Lorenz	1952	14
Encounters with animals	Gerald Malcolm Durrell	1958	14
Two in the bush	Gerald Malcolm Durrell	1966	14
An introduction to animal behaviour	Aubrey Manning	1967	13
Exploring Animal Behavior	Paul W. Sherman	1993	11
Dr. Tatiana's sex advice to all creation	Olivia Judson	2002	11
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?	Frans de Waal	2016	11
Animal intelligence	George John Romanes	1882	10
The Inner Life of Animals	Peter Wohlleben	2016	10
Does It Fart?	Nick Caruso	2017	10
Wild beasts	John Hampden Porter	1894	9
How Animals Sleep	Millicent E. Selsam	1953	9
A nest is noisy	Dianna Hutts Aston	2015	9
Behave	Robert M. Sapolsky	2017	9
Animal behaviour	John Leonard Cloudsley-Thompson	1960	8
The rat	S. A. Barnett	1963	8
Biological exuberance	Bruce Bagemihl	1999	8
Nuts About Squirrels	Richard E. Mallery	2000	8
King Solomon's ring	Konrad Z. Lorenz	1952	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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