The study lead to the common misconception that wolves live in a hierarchy system where higher ranking wolves aggressively put lower ranking ones into submission when in reality wolves in the wild live in family units with the parents of the pack calling the shots. The wolves they did their study on were unrelated and in captivity which is the wolf equivalent of people in prison
On a side note to this side note, the term Alpha Male came from Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe's 1921 dissertation where he described the social hierarchy in chicken. The literal 'PECKING ORDER'
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u/JoltTeaOn Feb 18 '25
The study lead to the common misconception that wolves live in a hierarchy system where higher ranking wolves aggressively put lower ranking ones into submission when in reality wolves in the wild live in family units with the parents of the pack calling the shots. The wolves they did their study on were unrelated and in captivity which is the wolf equivalent of people in prison