The “Alpha Wolf” notion is outmoded and incorrect
via Saladin Ahmed — the scientist who coined the term abandoned it as useless years ago:
The concept of the alpha wolf is well ingrained in the popular wolf literature at least partly because of my book “The Wolf: Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species,” written in 1968, published in 1970, republished in paperback in 1981, and currently still in print, despite my numerous pleas to the publisher to stop publishing it. Although most of the book’s info is still accurate, much is outdated. We have learned more about wolves in the last 40 years then in all of previous history. One of the outdated pieces of information is the concept of the alpha wolf. “Alpha” implies competing with others and becoming top dog by winning a contest or battle. However, most wolves who lead packs achieved their position simply by mating and producing pups, which then became their pack. In other words they are merely breeders, or parents, and that’s all we call them today, the “breeding male,” “breeding female,” or “male parent,” “female parent,” or the “adult male” or “adult female.” In the rare packs that include more than one breeding animal, the “dominant breeder” can be called that, and any breeding daughter can be called a “subordinate breeder.”
(tags: biology animals wolves alpha alpha-males mra science wolf-packs society competition parenting)
The private monorail tunnel under North London
20km of private monorail owned and operated by the electricity grid, used to monitor and inspect one of the longest 400kV circuits in Europe
(tags: power monorail transport london underground tunnelling electricity cool)
AWS latency comparison: API Gateway vs Lambda vs Bare EC2
ugh, 213ms mean response overhead
(tags: aws latency lambda api-gateway architecture http)
Airfixers – Hosting without the hassle
Full AirBnB property management service in Dublin
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Mt. Gox had a chair worth $28,000
According to the bankruptcy documents, one of the assets listed is ‘a chair worth 2,902,119JPY, or roughly $28,000USD.’
(tags: chairs funny mtgox scams bitcoin furniture assets bankruptcy)