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shamelessly_mkpbleviee:
sursumursa:
madmaudlingoes:
jethroq:
pterobat:
naamahdarling:
did-you-kno:
Source
Wolves fighting for dominance as a “thing” came from observation of captive packs. Observation of genuinely wild packs has revealed that it is not, in fact, a “thing.”
Y’hear that, ya dumbass modern werewolf writers?
hear that, self-styled “alpha males”?
They weren’t even captive packs, they were a bunch of unrelated wolves shoved together in too-small a space.
So if you’re an ‘alpha wolf’ then you are, in point of fact, not the noble, fierce and imposing leader of a group who respects you, but a scared wild creature with no social support frantically lashing out at strangers to try and gain some semblance of control over a fundamentally uncontrollable environment?
Huh.
That would explain a few things.
Yep! I took a course on animal behavior, and found out there is no quicker way to make a zoologist roll their eyes than saying “alpha wolf.”
actually, this makes derek hale make even MORE sense tbh.
via:Tumblr http://ift.tt/RdkBAI
sursumursa:
madmaudlingoes:
jethroq:
pterobat:
naamahdarling:
did-you-kno:
Source
Wolves fighting for dominance as a “thing” came from observation of captive packs. Observation of genuinely wild packs has revealed that it is not, in fact, a “thing.”
Y’hear that, ya dumbass modern werewolf writers?
hear that, self-styled “alpha males”?
They weren’t even captive packs, they were a bunch of unrelated wolves shoved together in too-small a space.
So if you’re an ‘alpha wolf’ then you are, in point of fact, not the noble, fierce and imposing leader of a group who respects you, but a scared wild creature with no social support frantically lashing out at strangers to try and gain some semblance of control over a fundamentally uncontrollable environment?
Huh.
That would explain a few things.
Yep! I took a course on animal behavior, and found out there is no quicker way to make a zoologist roll their eyes than saying “alpha wolf.”
actually, this makes derek hale make even MORE sense tbh.
via:Tumblr http://ift.tt/RdkBAI
