Talk:Peter Hale/@comment-74.141.196.205-20110802133416/@comment-4241432-20110803150445

Wolf packs are hierarchical social structures with a breeding "alpha" pair which climbs the social ladder through fighting, followed by subordinate "beta" wolves and a low ranking "omega" which bears the brunt of the pack's aggression. Although you are right that omegas could potentially become an alpha, they are not in a higher "status" than an alpha. Thing of the wolf status as human hierarchical status. Upper class, middle class, lower class. They all have the potential to become the other but omegas are not higher than the alpha but are lower than both alphas and betas.