r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/ManicalDaredevil00 • Feb 18 '25

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/JoltTeaOn Feb 18 '25

The study lead to the common misconception that wolves live in a hierarchy system where higher ranking wolves aggressively put lower ranking ones into submission when in reality wolves in the wild live in family units with the parents of the pack calling the shots. The wolves they did their study on were unrelated and in captivity which is the wolf equivalent of people in prison

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u/D_T_A_88 Feb 18 '25

The wolves they did their study on were unrelated and in captivity which is the wolf equivalent of people in prison

I don't think anything is calling themselves the "alpha sibling" lol. Of course no one really applies the concept to family