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 ...

Three dire wolf pups are growing up fast after scientists claimed to have revived the ancient species in the world's first ...

It's a Myth That Alpha Wolves and Alpha Dogs Are Myths . The best places to go concerning what we know about wild wolves are four books by one of the world's wolf experts, Rick McIntyre.

Affected dog training. The alpha wolf theory was of great importance in dog training, says NTNU's Ane Møller Gabrielsen. "This was true especially after 1970, when David Mech published his study.

The idea that wolf packs are led by a merciless dictator, or alpha wolf, ... “Packs might be more receptive to new individuals just so their pups survive to the next year,” Bassing says.

We can’t seem to shake off our obsession with the ‘alpha wolf’ myth. Credit: Shutterstock. Around the 1970s, the world latched onto a catchy new scientific term: alpha wolf. It described the top dog ...

Wolf 907 in Yellowstone National Park is well into her golden years. With one eye left, she’s considered elderly at the old age of 11. But that hasn’t stopped her from giving birth to another ...

In dog training, this “do it or else” model has its roots in the concept of the “alpha wolf,” a long-debunked theory that originated in the 1940s with the Swiss researcher Rudolph Schenkel.

EUREKA, Mo. — Six Mexican wolf pups born at the Endangered Wolf Center in Eureka caught their first flight out west last week just 11 days after being born.