📚 Ethology

Animal behaviour as a science: Lorenz, Tinbergen and the fixed action patterns observed in the field.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject ethology in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. 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.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	In the shadow of man	Jane Goodall	1971	26
	Primate ethology	Desmond Morris	1967	20
	Measuring behaviour	Paul Martin	1986	11
	The herring gull's world	Tinbergen, Niko	1953	9
	An introduction to behavioural ecology	J. R. Krebs	1981	9
	Tinbergen's Legacy	Simon Verhulst	2008	9
	Sociobiology, beyond nature/nurture?	George W. Barlow	1979	8
	Ontogeny	P. P. G. Bateson	1973	7
	Infanticide	Glenn Hausfater	1984	7
	Guangxi tong zhi	Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu di fang zhi bian zuan wei yuan hui	1995	7
	An Appetite For Wonder The Making Of A Scientist A Memoir	Richard Dawkins	2013	7
	The social life of monkeys and apes	Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman	1932	6
	Social behaviour in animals	Tinbergen, Niko	1953	6
	Communication in the animal world	William F. Evans	1968	5
	Circannual clocks	American Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting	1974	5
	The question of animal awareness	Donald R. Griffin	1976	5
	Behavior of Marine Animals	Joanna Burger	1980	5
	Jane Goodall	Dale Peterson	2006	5
	The great apes	Yerkes, Robert Mearns	1929	4
	Animal psychophysics	William C. Stebbins	1970	4
	Patterns of primate behavior	Claud A. Bramblett	1976	4
	Identified neurons and behavior of arthropods	Graham Hoyle	1977	4
	Man and beast	Wilton Dillon	1971	3
	Behavior of marine animals	Howard Elliott Winn	1972	3
	Birds: brain and behavior	Lashley Memorial Conference West Virginia University 1971.	1974	3
	Function and Evolution in Behaviour	Gerard Baerends	1975	3
	The order of wolves	Richard N. T-W-Fiennes	1976	3
	Neurological foundations of animal behavior	C. Judson Herrick	1924	2
	Primate behavior: field studies of monkeys and apes	Irven DeVore	1965	2
	Handbook of waterfowl behavior	Paul A. Johnsgard	1965	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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