📚 Animal Intelligence

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with animal intelligence on their catalogue record, first published between 1500 and 2016, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject animal intelligence in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 889 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
Moralia	Plutarch	1500	211
Learning and instinct in animals	W. H. Thorpe	1956	26
Living Free	Joy Adamson	1961	17
The genius of birds	Jennifer Ackerman	2016	16
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?	Frans de Waal	2016	11
Animal intelligence	George John Romanes	1878	10
Animal intelligence	George John Romanes	1882	10
The animal mind	Margaret Floy Washburn	1908	10
The Inner Life of Animals	Peter Wohlleben	2016	10
An introduction to comparative psychology	C. Lloyd Morgan	1894	9
Lectures on human and animal psychology	Wilhelm Max Wundt	1894	9
Symbolic Foundations of Conditioned Behavior	Charles R. Gallistel	2002	8
Intelligenzprüfungen an Menschenaffen	Wolfgang Köhler	1925	7
The mentality of apes	Wolfgang Köhler	1927	7
Non-human thought	Jacques Graven	1967	7
The intelligence of dogs	Stanley Coren	1994	7
Mind of the Raven	Bernd Heinrich	1999	7
Evolution of Thought	Anne E. Russon	2004	7
Other Minds	Peter Godfrey-Smith	2016	7
Animal behaviour	C. Lloyd Morgan	1900	6
Animal education	John B. Watson	1903	6
Horse psychology	Moyra Williams	1956	6
Non-human thought	Jacques Graven	1967	6
Orcas	Claire Throp	2013	6
What a Fish Knows	Jonathan Balcombe	2016	6
Animal intelligence	Edward L. Thorndike	1898	5
Experiments in educability	Stevenson Smith	1914	5
Lola	Henny Kindermann	1923	5
The mind of the horse	R. H. Smythe	1965	5
The story of Elsa	Joy Adamson	1966	5

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

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