The "alpha"/"beta"/"omega" phenomenon is something observed in wolves in captivity -- who had no relationship with each other and were freaked out at being trapped together, and had "dominance fights" for that reason It's like trying to study human society based on prison gangshttps://twitter.com/eevee/status/1332382443207155714 …
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Put a bunch of random strangers who'd have absolutely no reason to interact with each other under normal circumstances in one big house and don't let them leave Find out what happens when they stop being polite and start getting real
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I believe that's also the explanation for the praying mantis females biting off the males' heads, but I'll have to double check on that
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Psych too, no?
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there's also the part where scientists have long projected their own ideas about human behavior into their interpretations of animal behavior cf. "harem-forming" animals fausto-sterling has a ton of examples of this
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Fausto-Sterling is goddamn amazing (and she's on twitter!)
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It's not even that, it was just an early phase of research. They corrected the mistake long ago. If you already have wolves in captivity it makes sense to look at them before you look at wolves in the wild. That's what they did
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The last part is now making me think about if aliens took their studies of human behavior from watching reality tv.
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Same as the blobfish: biologists thinking that the way it looks after gratuitous tissue damage from being pulled into a much lower pressure environment is how it looks in its actual habitat.pic.twitter.com/KAFNrKv9BT
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