• neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    20 hours ago

    Okay yeah, that’s about what I remembered. The parents leading and the children leaving when they become adults, thus not endangering the position of the parents.

    I guess I just somehow mandela-effected the term “alpha” into there

    But funny that wolves have social systems closer to humans than some ape species with their silverbacks.

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      18 hours ago

      Oh yeah, we definitely form close knit family and community units with dispersed hierarchy instead of giving all the bananas and power to a small handful of apes who can then impose their will on everyone else…