Wolf packs don't actually have alpha males and alpha females.

[MoonRiver]

You may have heard that a wolf pack is led by an alpha pair.

Given this designation, it's easy to imagine that a pack consists of young adults and older animals in a strict ranking system. You can imagine that relatives, newcomers and challengers are all part of the system. Maybe some of these wolves might challenge the alpha male to take over leadership of the pack?

On the Howstuffworks website, for example, you can read that wolves follow "an incredibly sophisticated group hierarchy," and that wolves naturally organize themselves in packs for stability and to help each other with hunting.

The pack structure is said to include a "beta wolf" who is the deputy and the "omega wolf" who is at the bottom of the rank, and often the victim of bullying.

In reality, wolf packs are usually much less complicated.

https://phys.org/news/2021-04-wolf-dont-alpha-males-females.html?fbclid=IwAR3vbIqpD8SVpV1IgdbPcTkWj4hBZDWQCeEL4OvtUR9E2IApYke_3BHUUVA

[LizBeth]

1. It feeds into the toxic masculinity for males and will not be displaced whether true or not.

[MoonRiver]

8. True dat

[TheBlackAdder]

2. Adam Ruins Everything also did a segment on that.

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[cinematicdiversions]

4. I have always loved this clip. NT

[smirkymonkey]

10. That was great!

I am so sick of this Alpha/Beta crap I could scream.

[lindysalsagal]

3. OK but I know I was the alpha in my house, and the dog knew it, too. But treated my

daughter as a sister or playmate. But the dog related to me completely differently, seeking my approval, never barking unless I was obviously playing, then it was play barking.

I made that mistake with my first dog, and it thought it was alpha, and wow, was that impossible.

[StarryNite]

5. Very interesting

I absolutely love wolves. Thank you so much for sharing.

[lagomorph777]

6. I don't think adult males are allowed in the pack.

Like human males, they are too dangerous to keep around the children.

Hence the term "lone wolf."

[treestar]

7. People pick the animals who do things the way they would

like for humans to do as an example, but man is a most complicated animal.

[ismnotwasm]

9. It's a primate thing. And even then, it doesn't mean what those idiots promoting it think it means

Stupid