I found this too be quite interesting:
To me, this makes all the “I’m an alpha, like a wolf” bumble even funnier. Nah, you’re just a cat person with poop on the brain.
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Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 months agoThere’s no wolf alphas in nature neither. It’s an old and debunked theory based on studying captive wolves.
tooclose104@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 months ago
That is an interesting article, thanks for sharing!
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
To be absolutely clear to anyone who hasn’t read about this; it was debunked by the same guy who came up with it in the first place!
The dude studied wolves in captivity, drew conclusions about their behaviour, then applied those studies to wolves in the wild and discovered that he’d got it all wrong. The behaviours that he observed in captive wolves were all stress responses.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Because he’s a good scientist. He followed the evidence, ran a different experiment to test his findings, and followed the evidence again.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Absolutely. He had the courage to question his own assumptions when they were challenged by new evidence. Everyone could stand to learn from him.
Agrivar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So, what I’m hearing is that there are human alpha males… but only in prisons. That checks out.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
No no you’ve got it backwards. Those are just stress responses. Human alphas do exist but you have to put them in the wild with a hungry pack of wolves.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
To be fair, the alpha male thing in humanity is also a stress response.
fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Well then I’m alpha as fuck.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Didn’t he also put a bunch of adolescent wolves together for that? It was basically a lupine Lord of the Flies in there.