Nick Pell
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6,131 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 13 Sep
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That's his term, not mine.
That's correct.
They so the lead wolf and the bitch wolf, which is it's actually gets a little funnier when you consider that the bitch wolf is the one of the wolves on top.
They maintain their position in the herd because it's not a pack.
It's just a herd.
They do this, they maintain their position by constant aggression towards other wolves designed to suppress them.
Schenker documented ritualized fighting and submission as the mechanisms by which this group of wolves socially regulated itself.
A biologist named L.
David Mech published the best selling book, The Wolf, in nineteen seventy.
It was the origin point of the alpha ideology in mainstream discourse.
Mech was not a blogger or a crank printing pamphlets in his basement.
This was science at the time.
It was a bestseller and in the book Mech codifies a linear dominance hierarchy.
He argues that wolf packs are structured like a military unit.
The alpha pair were the top male and female who won their status through physical contests and maintained it through dominance displays, such as pinning other wolves, growling, or standing over them.
And life in this framework is depicted as this constant low-level war for resources and mating rights.
Yeah.
And the thing is
Mech eventually disavowed everything significant about the wolf.
In 1999, he wrote a paper called Alpha Status Dominance and Division of Labor in Wolf Packs.
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