The alpha wolf is an archetype that looms large in our imagination. The idea of a leader in the pack, who fought his way to dominance and is superior to the other wolves in his pack. It turns out to be fiction, and many people don't understand wolf behaviour. The alpha wolf does not exist - at least not in the wild.
Although the concepts of 'alpha wolf' and 'alpha dog' seem to be deeply ingrained in our language, the idea comes from the alpha of Rudolph Schenkel, a behavioural therapist for animals, who published the then groundbreaking article 'Expressions Studies on Wolves' in 1947. "In the 1930s and 1940s, Schenkel studied wolves in captivity at the Basel Zoo, in an attempt to identify a 'sociology of the wolf'.
In more recent years, animal behavioural practitioners, including Mech, have spent more and more time studying wolves in the wild, and the behaviour they have observed is different from that observed by Schenkel and other observers of zoo-bound wolves.
In 1999 Mech's newspaper "Alpha Status, Dominance and Division of Labour in Wolf Packs" was published in the Canadian Journal of Zoology. The paper is regarded by many as a turning point in understanding the structure of wolf packs.
It remains extraordinary how some people made a direct link to people, without any foundation, on a study that was incomplete to say the least.
It all started with a4 paper and HB pencils. As a child I was often impressed by how beautiful the world around me was. The urge to capture this beautiful world, and to show the people around me what I saw, was actually there from the beginning. If I remember correctly, I was about eleven years old when I first met the camera. Of course it was a simple compact camera with a ridiculous quality, but I enjoyed it.
I sometimes said I wanted to be a photographer, but of course you have one of the two parents who says, "Dream on." Strangely enough, I followed the sarcastic remark as advice, and still went to study photography.
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