Beyond the alpha male: Primate studies challenge male-dominance norms (www.mpg.de)

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yep. David Mech is the one who basically coined the term “alpha wolf” based on an early study, and has since spent years of his career retracting that theory and explaining that male wolves do not fight for dominance in nature.

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