SciShow: No, Your Dog Doesn't Think You're the "Alpha"

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Content of the Lesson: The toughest, most dominant canine gets the resources and respect - or at least that's the idea that caught on culturally. Turns out, that's not necessarily how it works. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon PBS Eons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDt0HKSdRRw SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, James Knight, Sam Buck, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg, Lehel Kovacs, Bd_Tmprd ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.popgen.su.se/hund/dokument/Hedges_2017.pdf https://archive.org/details/SchenkelCaptiveWolfStudy.compressed/page/n11/mode/2up https://www.pnas.org/content/109/23/8878 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAkp7oOTwK8 https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12052-018-0090-x https://www.jstor.org/stable/23264664?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents http://www.dogtraininggeek.com/alpha-dog-training.html https://dogtraining.world/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Mech1999.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098220300263X?via%3Dihub (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347208003631 ) ???? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347205003155 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168159108003717 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261106650_Dog_training_methods_Their_use_effectiveness_and_interaction_with_behaviour_and_welfare Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/wolf-standing-on-a-hill-gm1170695021-324044740 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/wolf-pup-gm474625522-64803037 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/european-wolf-canis-lupus-female-with-youngs-gm1203536865-345943875 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/two-wolves-howling-during-a-snow-storm-gm172140879-2542558 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/happy-man-training-with-his-dog-at-the-park-gm1136817448-302897790 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/happiness-concept-with-young-beautiful-laughing-lady-with-short-black-hair-and-puppy-gm1127269726-297045423 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/angry-dog-aggressively-barking-and-defending-his-territory-gm1048217784-280380230 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/young-playful-dog-roaring-walking-and-playing-with-playful-jack-russell-terrier-pets-gm1168426037-322616853 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/special-relationship-gm106464817-1801907 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/chihuahua-dog-with-wild-wolf-shadow-animal-character-concept-gm846113580-138549129 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/cry-wolf-gm172737982-5046365 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Mech_2017.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/i-love-food-gm537413000-95285515


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