Susan

“Our whole image of wolf packs and alphas is completely wrong. Instead, wolves live the way people do:7 in families made up of a mom, a dad, and their children. Sometimes an unrelated wolf can be adopted into a pack, or one of the mom’s or dad’s relatives is part of the pack (the “maiden aunt”), or a mom or dad who has died could be replaced by a new wolf. But mostly wolf packs are just a mom, a dad, and their pups.”
― Temple Grandin, Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals – A NYT Bestseller on the Emotional Needs of Dogs, Cats, Horses, and Zoo Creatures