The alpha wolf notion of challenging dad for dominance of the existing pack just isn’t in the wolf playbook. Indeed, even general family conflict is rare, Mech says.

Popularized the alpha wolf concept. A great deal of research was done on the wolf's pack structure in the 1960s and 1970s, but this was mainly on wolves in captivity, Zimmermann said.

Top Photo by Caninest. Although the notions of “alpha wolf” and “alpha dog” seem thoroughly ingrained in our language, the idea of the alpha comes from Rudolph Schenkel, an animal ...

In mid-winter in Wood Buffalo National Park temperatures hover around -40°C. The wolf pack, led by the alpha female, travel single-file through the deep snow to save energy.

Wolf 21 later left his family and became an alpha male in a neighboring pack. As far as I know he never lost a fight with another male, but always followed the modeling of 8 and never killed a ...

It's a Myth That Alpha Wolves and Alpha Dogs Are Myths . The best places to go concerning what we know about wild wolves are four books by one of the world's wolf experts, Rick McIntyre.

One of number 9 and 10's pups, 21, would become the most famous and loved wolf of all time in Yellowstone. 21 grew up to become the alpha male of the Druid Peak Pack. Normally, a wolf pack has one ...

Yellowstone's Junction Butte wolf pack failed in a recent attempt to kill a bison, but the pack appears to be thriving again after the death of its former alpha female, Wolf 907F.

The pack's alpha female was killed earlier this week, Anderson said. A younger female wolf was shot by an agency staffer on Aug. 7 during the first lethal efforts to curb attacks on cattle that ...

Following the death of their alpha, an entire wolf pack has been euthanized at a wildlife center in the United Kingdom. Staff at the Camperdown Wildlife Centre, based in Scotland, are ...

The alpha wolf is a figure that looms large in our imagination. The notion of a supreme pack leader, who fought his way to dominance and reigns superior to the other wolves in his pack, is huge in ...