(December 3, 2014 at 10:31 am)Jenny A Wrote: Is it this one?
Why everything you know about wolf packs is wrong--summary of study.
Alpha Status, Dominance, and Division of Labor in Wolf Packs by L. David Mech --study itself.
Those look good. There are a lot of articles on this subject. National Geographic recently had a program on how dogs and wolves differ which was fascinating. Apparently, dogs naturally pay more attention to humans to help solve a problem while wolves tend to solve those same problems on their own.
Quote:In more recent years, animal behaviorists, including Mech, have spent more and more time studying wolves in the wild, and the behaviors they have observed has been different from those observed by Schenkel and other watchers of zoo-bound wolves. In 1999, Mech's paper "Alpha Status, Dominance, and Division of Labor in Wolf Packs" was published in the Canadian Journal of Zoology. The paper is considered by many to be a turning point in understanding the structure of wolf packs.
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Quote:While the captive wolf studies saw unrelated adults living together in captivity, related, rather than unrelated, wolves travel together in the wild. Younger wolves do not overthrow the "alpha" to become the leader of the pack; as wolf pups grow older, they are dispersed from their parents' packs, pair off with other dispersed wolves, have pups, and thus form packs of their owns.
