In mid-winter in Wood Buffalo National Park temperatures hover around -40°C. The wolf pack, led by the alpha female, travel single-file through the deep snow to save energy.

Top Photo by Caninest. Although the notions of “alpha wolf” and “alpha dog” seem thoroughly ingrained in our language, the idea of the alpha comes from Rudolph Schenkel, an animal ...

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.

Popularized the alpha wolf concept. A great deal of research was done on the wolf's pack structure in the 1960s and 1970s, but this was mainly on wolves in captivity, Zimmermann said.

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.

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 ...

Conservationists learned today that the Prieto pack’s nine-year-old alpha female died in federal custody on April 25 and that a yearling has fled dozens of miles from his natal range. These events ...