Re:Wolf packs don't have alpha males and alpha females
by torstenvl on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:13PM
(#27390144)
> Wolf packs don't actually have alpha males and alpha females
> He wrote that what was commonly called the alpha pair . . . led the pack's activities.
Uhhhh...
> "The point here is not so much the terminology, but what the terminology falsely implies: a strictly strength-based dominance hierarchy," he wrote.
Repudiating earlier science, not because it was wrong, but because you don't like how the terminology has come to be used in pop culture, is bad science.
> He wrote that what was commonly called the alpha pair . . . led the pack's activities.
Uhhhh...
> "The point here is not so much the terminology, but what the terminology falsely implies: a strictly strength-based dominance hierarchy," he wrote.
Repudiating earlier science, not because it was wrong, but because you don't like how the terminology has come to be used in pop culture, is bad science.