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Ape House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 3.51 — 30,748 ratings — published 2010
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book)
by (shelved 35 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,108 ratings — published 2004
Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 3.63 — 18,804 ratings — published 2009
Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,279 ratings — published 2009
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 3.94 — 64,094 ratings — published 2015
The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,987 ratings — published 2002
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 3.97 — 17,030 ratings — published 2016
A Dog's Purpose (A Dog's Purpose, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.36 — 142,388 ratings — published 2010
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,390 ratings — published 2008
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,518 ratings — published 2013
Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,140 ratings — published 2013
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,420 ratings — published 1963
In the Shadow of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,874 ratings — published 1971
The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,897 ratings — published 2007
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.46 — 39,553 ratings — published 2022
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,899 ratings — published 2019
Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,917 ratings — published 1984
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,834 ratings — published 2015
Reaching the Animal Mind: Clicker Training and What It Teaches Us About All Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,353 ratings — published 2008
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,092 ratings — published 1994
Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.21 — 20,138 ratings — published 2007
On Talking Terms with Dogs: Calming Signals (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,953 ratings — published 2005
For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,134 ratings — published 2005
The Power of Positive Dog Training (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,078 ratings — published 2001
Gorillas in the Mist (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.16 — 21,393 ratings — published 1983
The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,604 ratings — published 2013
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,463 ratings — published 2016
How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,743 ratings — published 2013
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,115 ratings — published 1982
The Culture Clash (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,841 ratings — published 1997
Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding & Correcting Common Dog Problems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 3.77 — 11,899 ratings — published 1997
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,868 ratings — published 2023
How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.06 — 14,289 ratings — published 2018
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,264 ratings — published 2012
The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom from a Remarkable Herd of Elephants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.51 — 34,823 ratings — published 2009
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,578 ratings — published 1990
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,196 ratings — published 2001
Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,198 ratings — published 2007
Mind of the Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,400 ratings — published 1994
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,608,844 ratings — published 2022
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 3.84 — 32,271 ratings — published 2021
Decoding Your Cat: The Ultimate Experts Explain Common Cat Behaviors and Reveal How to Prevent or Change Unwanted Ones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.15 — 690 ratings — published 2020
The Education of Will: A Mutual Memoir of a Woman and Her Dog (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,449 ratings — published 2017
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,936 ratings — published 2016
The Wisdom of Wolves: Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,810 ratings — published 2018
The Man Who Listens to Horses (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,156 ratings — published 1997
Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,332 ratings — published 2014
Leaving Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.00 — 210,964 ratings — published 2014
How Animals Grieve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 3.73 — 541 ratings — published 2013
Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as animal-behavior)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,507 ratings — published 2003
“Ancestry is Garbage (The Sonnet)
DNA test may reveal your ancestry,
But there is no DNA test for character.
IQ may reveal deficit in logical aptitude,
There's no IQ test for excellence or genius.
If bloodline dictated destiny,
We'd still be dangling from trees.
Not that we've done much better,
But at least there is possibility.
In the end we are all monkeys,
We all come from the jungle.
Question is, have we conquered
the jungle that lurks in our heart,
have we risen yet above the animal!
Ancestry is garbage, IQ is useless,
Living humans don't rely on such nonsense.
Heart, brain, backbone, these make who we are,
Everything else is mythology of the savages.”
― Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
DNA test may reveal your ancestry,
But there is no DNA test for character.
IQ may reveal deficit in logical aptitude,
There's no IQ test for excellence or genius.
If bloodline dictated destiny,
We'd still be dangling from trees.
Not that we've done much better,
But at least there is possibility.
In the end we are all monkeys,
We all come from the jungle.
Question is, have we conquered
the jungle that lurks in our heart,
have we risen yet above the animal!
Ancestry is garbage, IQ is useless,
Living humans don't rely on such nonsense.
Heart, brain, backbone, these make who we are,
Everything else is mythology of the savages.”
― Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Just try to maneuver against a crowd of students and teachers who have learned that an administrative meeting just ended and that food plates are still available in an open conference room. It's like a shark feeding-frenzy.”
― The Wisdom of Loki: The Art of Lying in the Natural World
― The Wisdom of Loki: The Art of Lying in the Natural World
