• CoolGirl586@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        None of them really have a hierarchy at all. Dogs, cats and horses are usually just a breeding pair and their offspring. Actually foxes are the only animal you named that does live in a structured hierarchy.

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        7 months ago

        I don’t know anything about it, but apparently alpha wolves are not actually a thing. Can someone chime in more info?

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          7 months ago

          The guy that claimed it later proved it wasn’t true and has spent the rest of his life yelling about how he was wrong. With way too many people not listening. Wolves just exist in social groups.

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            The study was on captive wolves, so it was not accurate to wolves in their natural environment. All it shows is that if you restrict wolves to a very small amount of territory, they will fight for dominance, probably because they think it means food scarcity.