Carrots improve eyesight...nah, just military misinformation that is now a staple for parents to get their kids to eat their carrots

I wonder if this discourse sounds hilarious to a Greek person wondering why Angloids keep referring to themselves by letters of their alphabet.

The alphas in question

Someone needs to tell all the authors involved in the wave of trash urban fantasy books that flooded the market a while back, using this to write werewolves. (True Blood, etc.)

There are species that do have leader types in the social hierarchies though. Gorillas for example, or orcas.

I've heard this debunk a lot over the years, and I don't disbelieve it, but is it not the case that one or two animals (wolves or otherwise) in a group will be the "bosses" or something close to being dominant over the others? Is all of that internal power struggling we see in groups/families of animals not really what it seems? Or is the "alpha" stuff different from that? Or does it only apply to wolves, and "alphas" do exist in other animal species?

Yours, confused and uneducated,

u/58008

TIL!