His life’s work was attempting to get everyone to know that his initial work offered incorrect conclusions and that he had later disproved it. He’s actually a hero.
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
Okay yeah, that’s about what I remembered. The parents leading and the children leaving when they become adults, thus not endangering the position of the parents.
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.
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…
What about that bloke who started all this stuff about alpha and beta wolves?
His life’s work was attempting to get everyone to know that his initial work offered incorrect conclusions and that he had later disproved it. He’s actually a hero.
Yeah, respect to the dude
Wait, that isn’t true? I never heard about beta wolves, but i learned about alpha wolves in a public school.
Are we talking about the same thing?
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
Yes, it’s all debunked
Okay yeah, that’s about what I remembered. The parents leading and the children leaving when they become adults, thus not endangering the position of the parents.
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.
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…
I sometimes wonder if dogs taught us civilization.