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Re:The Alpha Myth: How captive wolves led us astray by earnestinger on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @01:39AM (#42849530)
Dominance != aggression

(South park had interesting episode on that)

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Re:The Alpha Myth: How captive wolves led us astray by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @03:03AM (#42849960)
> Dominance != aggression

"Dominating behaviour" is frequently used to refer to aggression, albeit not necessarily violent aggression. (I would like to blame the sociologists, but I think this mess is mostly the work of pop scientists.)

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Re:The Alpha Myth: How captive wolves led us astray by HWR_14 on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @01:43PM (#42856187)
Which episode are you thinking of?
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Re:The Alpha Myth: How captive wolves led us astray by earnestinger on Saturday February 01, 2025 @02:49AM (#42896656)
I think it was this one https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0705911/
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