..."alpha male" and "alpha female."... It turned out all that stuff
was mostly wrong.
It wasn't until the early seventies, after we'd put those radios on
wolves and we could follow each individual that we realized, Oh, a
pack is a family.
As Kira Cassidy, an associate research scientist with a National Park
Service research program in Yellowstone, explained, "The wolves
generally in those dominant positions are not there because they
fought for it. It's not some battle to get to the top position.
They're just the oldest, or the parents.