In reality, wolf packs are usually much less complicated. Doesn't work for wolves in the wild Calling wolves alpha and beta animals comes from research on wolves in captivity, says Barbara Zimmermann.

I wanted to dig in and see what was there. And it was because of that serendipity of her carrying in the first wolf, the alpha female — number five — that would go on to carry her name ...

Road building increases human access to wolf denning areas, creating more human-wolf interactions ... down from 221 the prior year — although the number could be as low as 50. Female wolves were said ...