And no wonder human males often face pressure to measure up as “alpha” males—to “wolf up,” as it were. The term alpha male connotes a man who at every moment demonstrates that he’s in ...

“What would be the value of calling a human father the alpha male?” says L. David Mech, a senior research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, who has studied wolf packs in the wild for ...

The wolf has long been used to symbolize an “alpha” male that tends to lead and dominate. More recently, however, the wolf has also come to represent the “sigma” persona—someone who ...

Federal law enforcement officials are investigating what they call the suspicious deaths of two endangered Mexican gray wolf alpha males in the past month - one in Eastern Arizona, the other in ...

"This incident, as with the death of the Copper Creek alpha male, points out how important each individual is to Colorado’s wolf restoration effort, and how critical it is that CPW moves ahead ...

which laid out the terms “lead wolf” and “bitch wolf,” the antecedents of “alpha male” and “alpha female.” Schenkel wrote, “Every mature wolf has an ever ready ‘expansion power ...