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.

It is worth noting here that Scientific American ran an article by Stephanie Pappas in its February 28, 2023 issue that debunks the notion of the alpha wolf as the strongest member of the pack, a ...

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 ...

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.

Colorado’s first wolf pack since the species’ reintroduction in 2023 is once again under intense scrutiny after a series of ...

The revived dire wolves are growing, as Colossal Biosciences has shared an update on the three pups that were brought back ...

Rivka Galchen on how new research shows that people got the model of aggression and dominance, derived from wolf-pack behavior, wrong.

Sitting in an old-growth spruce fir forest, Doug Smith says he can see first-hand the impact of reintroducing wolves on the ...

If the ‘alpha wolf' decides to target children in human settlements, others in the pack will follow suit. However, once the ‘alpha wolf' is captured or dead, the pack disperses, and wolves go ...

In all that time, he has rarely seen an alpha male act aggressively toward the pack’s other members. They are his family—his mate, offspring (both biological and adopted), and maybe a sibling.