Chcel by som nazdielat nejake knihy/informacie (v anglictine) a tiez nejake informacie o povode teorie ALFA vlka (teda z hladiska dominancie/sily - nie moci skor pokoja/vedenia) a ako to vlastne vsetko vzniklo:

Alpha Status, Dominance, and Division of Labor in Wolf Packs by David Mech
http://www.wolf.org/wolves/learn/basic/ ... nglish.pdf

Leadership in Wolf, Canis lupus, Packs by David Mech
http://ncrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/jrnl/2000/nc ... ch_002.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNtFgdwT ... r_embedded


Je mozne, ze sa to tu uz objavilo, nemam to tu cele prebrowsene od zaciatku az po koniec.

The term ‘alpha’ with regard to wolves exists for a long time. But where does it come from?

At the end of the ’60, David Mech wrote his book ‘The Wolf: Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species’. He based this book on one of the most important studies done on the behaviour of wolves in captivity by Rudolph Schenkel. Mech took the term ‘alpha wolf’ from Schenkels’ study.

Most books and studies on wolves that were written after Mechs book, were for a large part based on the information published in this standard of Mech. This is how the term ‘alpha’ became commonplace.

In the course of time, when more and more studies were done about the behaviour of wolves in the wild, it turned out how wrong the assumption of the former researchers was; they assumed a wolf pack was formed by a number of random individuals, who would meet up in the winter so they can hunt for larger prey animals. From that idea, for researche on the social behaviour of wolves, different wolves from different zoos were put together in a new group. If a random group of animals is composite in an artificial way, you get a battle on the power, and in the end a hierarchy that is maintained with difficulty. There you go; the alpha wolf and the inexorable ranking.

Nowadays scientists don’t see a wolf pack as a group of animals whit one absolute leader (or leading pair) that fought his way to the top, but they have detected that most wolf packs are nothing more than family groups who are shaped in the same way human families are shaped; parents with their offspring who, when grown up, leave the family, then wander around a bit until they have found a partner and a territory that isn’t occupied yet and that has enough prey, to there start their own family.
The parents have, pertaining to their children, an evident, natural leading role – ‘leading’ in the meaning of ‘guiding’, and nót ‘predominate’.

In 1999, Mech published his Article Alpha Status, Dominance, and Division of Labor in Wolf Packs, in which he officially corrected the wrong information in the scientific literature, and in 2000 he got into this in a second article, Leadership in Wolf, Canis lupus, Packs. Unfortunately, on average, it takes 20 years before new scientific insights are completely accepted.

David Mech explains on his website:

http://www.davemech.org/news.html

Nechcem to tu moc tapetovat, v tej linke je par zaujimavych suborov k precitaniu