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neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day agoWait, that isn’t true? I never heard about beta wolves, but i learned about alpha wolves in a public school, are we sure it’s wrong?
Are we even talking about the same thing?
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Okay yeah, that’s about what I remembered. The children leaving when they become adults.
I guess I just somehow mandela-effected the term “alpha” into there
But funny that wolves have social systems closer to humans than some ape species with their silverbacks.
Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Oh yeah, we definitely form close knit family and community units with dispersed hierarchy instead of giving all the bananas and power to a small handful of apes who can then impose their will on everyone else…
Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Yeah. It turns out that the “Alpha” and “Omega” wolves are just… The parents of the pack. It’s got nothing to do with the Alpha being macho or assertive or anything like how it’s been portrayed for decades.
The researcher who first published his faulty observations has been trying to correct the public consciousness for years, but it’s really hard to undo something that was taught so widely