why does y axis sometimes change from normal histogram to kernel density? Consider the distributions I have plotted below. They are of the same variables, one in normal histogram form and another in kernel density (Epachanov). 

As far as I know, the auc of the kernel curves is 1, so I'm not sure why the y-axis would need to change sometimes for that. Yeah, the main thing is I'm not sure why sometimes the y axis is the same and sometimes the y axis is different.
Question
Why did the y axis remain the same for the left two (0 to .8) but changed for the right two (histogram is 0 to 14, kernel is 1 to 7)? Feel free to explain about how the y axis factors into interpretation if you don't mind.
 A: For the LHS plots, the areas under the curves are n near $1$, so you don't see a range change in y-axis. We can inspect it visually, by reading $y$ values for each bin, and multiplying it with the step size, $0.25$ for the blue histogram. For example, the it has an approximate area of
$$(1/3\times3+1+2+3+3.5+5+7\times2+3.5+1+1.5)/10\times 0.25\approx 0.91$$ 
This is my simple approximation, you can come up with another, or directly calculate it from the data. But, it'll be around $1$. The situation is similar with the red histogram. KDE is not the same as normalized histogram but for simplicity you can think like we normalize the curve with 1/AUC. If AUC is close to $1$, then normalization won't affect the value on the y-axis a lot. 
It's harder to do visual inspection for the red plot on RHS, however, clearly, the AUC won't be close to $1$ so that the resulting KDE curve's y-axis values will be in different range. Also, some jumps might not well represented in KDE smoothed PDF. And, for the blue curve in RHS, y-axis range didn't change significantly. In the histogram, most of the values fluctuate around $1$, and the AUC is therefore $1$ since the support spans $[0,1]$. The KDE also produces a curve with y-value near $1$. 
