• neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    Wait, that isn’t true? I never heard about beta wolves, but i learned about alpha wolves in a public school.

    Are we talking about the same thing?

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      7 days ago

      Yeah. It turns out that the “Alpha” and “Omega” wolves are just… The parents of the pack. It’s got nothing to do with the Alpha being macho or assertive or anything like how it’s been portrayed for decades.

      The researcher who first published his faulty observations has been trying to correct the public consciousness for years, but it’s really hard to undo something that was taught so widely