• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    yup.

    the Alpha/Beta/whatever pecking order thing was established from observations of captive wolves in packs that were forced. it has more in common with the dominance heirarchy of prison culture among humans than it does with wolves being wolves in nature.

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      7 months ago

      The dude who did the study even said it was wrong and a bad study to apply to wolves.

      Imagine if an anthropologist said: this is a paper on normal human behavior.

      And then the first line is: to get an accurate representation of a population, I went to Rykers Island.