Sentences with phrase «of alpha wolves»

The vital flaw in this lycanthopic fiasco is that when trainers cite the supposed dominant behavior of alpha wolves, top dogs and bitches, they actually give an accurate description of insecure, middle - ranking males — the annoying blustering of little furry sacs of testosterone.

However, domestication has wrought many changes: instead of an alpha wolf, the single - dog household pack may have several leaders — all of them human.

Not exact matches

As the writer Saladin Ahmed pointed out, the concept of «alpha male» wolves that assert dominance over their pack through aggression comes from a debunked model of lupine social groups.

Alphas, he wrote in his 1970 book «The Wolf: Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species,» win control of their packs in violent fights with other males.

A leading example of this is Betty Friedan, who, whatever might be one's disagreement with her, surely can not be charged with having hit upon revisionism as a «marketing tool,» or with being no more than «a fallen leader who is clearly distressed and angry that she wasn't allowed to be the Alpha wolf as long as she would have liked.»

But after the general election landslide that saw the party take 56 of the 59 constituencies available in Scotland, Salmond is now an alpha wolf with a large, well - organised pack.

This brand of dominance represents a radical transformation from the snarling dominance of an alpha male in a pack of wolves, or the mouse tyrant lording it over his trembling colony.

A wolf, for instance, typically gets to be the alpha male in his pack by demonstrating an ability to chew off the ears of subordinates, and he reminds them of this talent by frequent snarling.

August 8, 2012 — A kill order was issued by the Fish and Wildlife Service to its sister agency, U.S.D.A. Wildlife Services, to shoot the alpha female of the Fox Mountain Pack of Mexican gray wolves due to the seven - member pack preying on four head of cattle over several months.

Mexican wolf packs are generally fairly small, consisting of an adult alpha pair, a yearling or two, and pups of the year.

After a series of lab - rat experiments conducted aboard a space station go horribly awry, resulting in the entire facility self - destructing in the opening scene, samples of Caldwell's formula fall to Earth, infecting George (who swells to King Kong proportions), an alpha wolf somewhere in Southern Wyoming, and a crocodile in Everglades National Park.

After these notable performances, Mihok continued to create memorable and diverse roles in such films as THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, DARK BLUE, BASIC, CONNIE AND CARLA, director Shane Black's KISS KISS BANG BANG, 10TH & WOLF, HOLLYWOODLAND, SEX AND DEATH 101, THE LONGSHOTS, Marvel's PUNISHER: WAR ZONE, and the unsettling motion - capture performance of the Alpha Male creature that went toe - to - toe with Will Smith in I AM LEGEND.

The world of nature seen in this movie makes me believe that the filmmakers had wolves and bees confused with their thoughts of Alphas and Omegas.

Each litter of wolves can have alphas and there are no «omegas» — just other wolves.

Even though they are from the same pack, Humphrey (voice of Justin Long) has no hope of winning the affections of Kate (voice of Hayden Panettiere) because she is an alpha wolf, while he is at the bottom of the social order.

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As a follow - up to the previous activity, have students make a list of words that were important to their understanding of the wolf, such as pack, alpha, canine, range, prey, and so on.

A few steps into that journey, he sensed that one of the wolves had run up to the snow - covered slope behind him, and he knew intuitively that it was a scout sent by the alpha male to see if other troops lay in wait.

But most of your characters are these awesome, tattooed, bearded, handsome, alpha wolves which, yeah, just threw a curve ball there at our listeners.

I do like many of the above comments related to wolves... the pack, alpha, belonging, shy, have nothing to do with human history.

My understanding of wolves is they live in pack with a family structure led by an alpha male.

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First, he and his Wolves have to take on a deadly threat, the deadliest of all; a corrupt and depraved Alpha with a horde of guards as immoral as their leader.

NEW RELEASE Ian's alpha tosses him out of his car at a training camp for worthless and weak wolf shifters run by a crazy vampire.

When she finds the man who could be her mate, she's shocked to discover Gideon is the Alpha wolf of the Talon Pack.

It is not casual, indeed that with the resurgence of the «dominance alpha wolf theory» fueled by Cesar Millans» National Geographic show the «Dog Whisperer» the number of dog bites are one the rise.

The notion that the wolves needed to access the best of everything by becoming alpha has somehow translated itself into how domesticated dogs perceive their social relationships with other dogs.

The early literature on social organization of wolves painted the picture that there was an alpha wolf, and that all the other wolves tried to get to the top in their lifetime.

For example: There would be a correction if a lower pack member tried to correct the alpha male of a pack of wolves.

That said, for those of us who have heard again and again that dogs are just domesticated wolves living in a «pack» of humans — and who hasn't heard that more times than you can count, thanks to the popularization of the concept on TV — it might be helpful to learn all the scientific reasoning behind how wolves and dogs are different (and how we misunderstood wolves and their pack interactions for a very, very long time), why those «alpha dog» approaches aren't the best way to relate to your dog (and in fact, can even cause more problems), and why alternate approaches like positive reinforcement and reading the body language of a dog as a dog and not a mini wolf do work.

Wolf packs are complex hierarchical organizations, typically comprising of an Alpha male and female, their offspring (the Beta, or second - in - command)

Even if the owner is aware that science classifies the dog as a subspecies of wolf, it does him no good to know that the alpha wolf controls his underlings with a stare or a stiff - legged gait or a rollover.

The alpha wolf remains in charge until he gets old or is seriously injured in a hunt or a fight with interlopers; the battle to replace him is often fierce and sometimes deadly, but once a new leader is chosen, things generally settle down so the pack can get on with the business of survival.

The dominant male — the alpha wolf — rules over all, the dominant female comes next, and all others usually give way in eating from the kill or producing the next generation of cubs.

The now - outdated dominance theory of dog training was based on the idea that dogs travel in hierarchical (alpha, beta, et al) packs like wild wolves do.

Alpha is one of those fun words that stick, maybe because it sounds good on tv and makes a fun story in print where we really get to be in control that has nothing to do in fact with how wolves or dogs live.

For example, one of the pre-eminent authorities on wolf biology, Dr. David L. Mech, who originally coined the term «alpha» has recanted the original implication of the term because new research shows that it is inaccurate.

Contrary to popular belief, research studies of wolves in their natural habitat demonstrate that wolves are not dominated by an «alpha wolf» who is the most aggressive pack member.

Their dominant position in the pack would earn the alpha wolf the very best parts of the prey.

Vital Essentials explains that the name refers to the alpha wolf — the leader of the pack.

Dogs are not wolves, and even among wolves the popular understanding of the «alpha» is wrong.

The whole alpha dog theory comes from a 1930s study of captive wolves.

Alpha Loup wolf sanctuary is situated just over an hour from Nice in the village of Boréon in the Mercantour National Park.

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