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[โ€“] Draconic_NEO@pawb.social 48 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Alpha isn't a real thing in the way it was originally described, wolf packs are a family stricture not a group of random dudes following the toughest ones. The "alphas" so to speak, are the parents and the "betas" are the children. We need to stop using outdated terminology from a retracted study in common language.

[โ€“] samus12345@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

I think the term as they mean it originated from wolf behavior in captivity rather than in the wild.

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