Some of the many articles about it:
The notion that wolves fight amongst each other and the strongest becomes the āalphaā and the weakest is the āomegaā and all that, is a misconception that has been debunked ages ago, and even the author of the study who called them āalphasā in the first place is pleading with his old publisher to stop printing the dang book already so this misconception can finally die out.
Wolf packs are more or less just families. One ābreeding pairā and their pups, which often stay with their parents way into adulthood.
Considering the original study only documented Wolves in captivity I explain it like this: Alpha, Beta, Sigma, whatever, is just the type of prison bitch youād be, so congrats.
Exactly this. Put any one species into a tiny depressing enclosure with way too many strangers and way too little food, and they will fight and establish a pecking order eventually. This has nothing to do with how the same species would behave in the wild and with enough resources to live comfortably, and the author realized that mistake years ago and is since trying to correct it.
But I guess the entire āalpha maleā thing is just too popular with certain people ā¦ ahem.
I chuckle inside and exit the room at the first chance when someone non-jokingly refers to themselves as an alpha male. And thatās not because Iām afraid of themāthe fact is that Iām the alpha male.
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Humans in packed cities could be described in a similar way though, if thereās not a social reinforcement in place, by the community elders who are respected and followed, to keep them from it. I live in a medium sized city now because of work, but even still I can relate to the rats [Iām aware of the studies flaws].
Put any one species into a [packed] depressing [space] with way too many strangers and way too [varied amounts of resources per individual], and they will fight and establish a pecking order eventually. This has nothing to do with how the same species would behave in the wild and with enough resources to live comfortably.
I grew up in the country with tens of acres and my nearest neighbor was a mile away. Separated from the small town nearby by a river and surrounded by thick hedgerows going miles around in every direction, with a huge open space (fields) between our house and the hedgerows. Iāve never been happy in the city. No matter where I am, I feel like Iām in a cage. Iām not agoraphobic but thereās a sense of being āwatchedā when I leave my house that just isnāt there when you live in a remote area. All the people, sights, sounds, smells can be incredibly overwhelming at times.
I am only capable of attaining a true level of peace when Iām in nature.
yeah no this is a bad take, humans are arguably the single most social species on earth and cities are where almost everyone lives for a damn good reason.
Itās not healthy for most people to live isolated in the countryside, we need a community to maintain mental health.
Also a great argument for the fact that caging humans doesnāt change anything in a positive direction. Especially when you enslave them too like in countries with barbaric penal systems such as the US.
The sad part is that a no small amount of prisons (especially āfor profitā prisons) donāt have the end goal of rehabiliting the inmates in the first place. Itās all about cheap labor. They donāt want to change anything into a positive direction.
Funny that pecking order is something you see in chickens. So these human alpha males are copying hen behavior.
In other related news, the makers of these shirts watched their stock prices plummet today:
Iām not sure āalphasā are the target market for this shirt.
Actually, Iād love to see this shirt on self-proclaimed alphas. Would be soā¦ badassā¦
Ironically its that they donāt have āalphasā in the wild because they just separate and leave each other aloneā¦
For humans in school, prisons, and even just work environments weāre a lot more like captive wolves than wild
This terminology arose from research done on captive wolf packs in the mid-20th centuryābut captive packs are nothing like wild ones, Mech says. When keeping wolves in captivity, humans typically throw together adult animals with no shared kinship. In these cases, a dominance hierarchy arises, Mech adds, but itās the animal equivalent of what might happen in a human prison, not the way wolves behave when they are left to their own devices.
That being said, any person describing themselves as an alpha is usually a big piece of shit.
Personally, I like the āalpha as in new softwareā approach: Alpha version = unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, prone to breakdown and not fit for the public.
A lot of guys have started calling themselves sigma males, but i just approach them and tell them Iām a Smegma male which is over a sigma male. š¤ these are facts that cannot be disputed.
Oh yeah? Iāll bet you use USPS like a schmuck. Your āpackageā ācameā in the āmailā š¤ I think not.
Just like the vaccines cause autism study, this wonāt ever die out. People only ever remember the original.
People only ever remember the original.
And only partially so. Conveniently, they forget the part where, IIRC, guy was just trying to promote his own vaccine
Ironic. It wasnāt his own vaccine. It was two vaccines that he held stock in.
All of you are wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield?wprov=sfti1
He had a bad study linking autism to certain vaccines and wanted to sell test kits.
