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No it's true. There are many sissy, err I mean girly men out there. There definitely is such thing as an alpha in the world of pack animals. That is common scientific knowledge.
It's really not. L. David Mech proposed that in 1970 with his wolf studies. Then retracted the whole concept 20 years later when he tried to replicate his work. Here he is in his own words on his own site dismissing it.
It's really not. L. David Mech proposed that in 1970 with his wolf studies. Then retracted the whole concept 20 years later when he tried to replicate his work. Here he is in his own words on his own site dismissing it.
A wolf pack has a definite social structure and rules of conduct. The pack leaders are the alpha male and female. These two animals are dominant over all the other wolves in the pack. The alpha male and female are the only wolves that breed and produce pups in the pack, and they also get to eat first at kills.
In the past, the prevailing view on grey wolf packs was that they consisted of individuals vying with each other for dominance, with dominant grey wolves being referred to as the "alpha" male and female, and the subordinates as "beta" and "omega" wolves. This terminology was first used in 1947 by Rudolf Schenkel of the University of Basel, who based his findings on researching the behaviour of captive grey wolves.[15] This view on gray wolf pack dynamics was later popularized by the researcher L. David Mech in his 1970 book The Wolf. He later found additional evidence that the concept of an Alpha male may have been an erroneous interpretation of incomplete data and formally disavowed this terminology in 1999. He explained that it was heavily based on the behavior of captive packs consisting of unrelated individuals, an error reflecting the once prevailing view that wild pack formation occurred in winter among independent gray wolves. Later research on wild gray wolves revealed that the pack is usually a family consisting of a breeding pair and its offspring of the previous 1–3 years.[16]
In some other wild canids, the alpha male may not have exclusive access to the alpha female;[17] moreover, other pack members as in the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) may guard the maternity den used by the alpha female
I guess there must be something about those "insecurities," WE WON!
It’s funny because you can’t even respond with a relevant comment in defense of what I posted. Too funny, in fact.
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