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Wasn't this shit not true from the get-go? not even to the wolves the whole idea came from?
Yep. David Mech is the one who basically coined the term “alpha wolf” based on an early study, and has since spent years of his career retracting that theory and explaining that male wolves do not fight for dominance in nature.