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Filthy

Iowa Wrestling Champion
Jun 28, 2016
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There's no such thing as an alpha male

"David Mech introduced the idea of the alpha to describe behavior observed in captive animals. Alphas, he wrote in his 1970 book "The Wolf: Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species," win control of their packs in violent fights with other males.

But, as he outlined in a 1999 paper, he's since rejected that idea in light of research into the behavior of wolves in the wild.

In nature, Mech writes, wolves split off from their packs when they mature, and seek out opposite-sex companions with whom to form new packs. The male and female co-dominate the new pack for a much simpler, more peaceful reason: They're the parents of all the pups.

Mech writes on his website (with the lovely title Wolf News and Info) that his original book is "currently still in print, despite my numerous pleas to the publisher to stop publishing it."
 

Robbie Hart

All Biden Voters Are Mindless Sheep
Feb 13, 2015
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Op knows he’s a beta male and is pissed off that he got owned by alpha’s like me
I get it broseph
 

MovinOn

Canis lupus familiaris
Jan 3, 2018
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Just a hunch, but this individual wouldn't qualify for "alpha," whether it exists or not...


 
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Op knows he’s a beta male and is pissed off that he got owned by alpha’s like me
I get it broseph
I have owned him more I think. He's too afraid to even quote my posts now, lest I get an alert and hurt his feelings again