She has covered weird animal behavior, ... The reason why a strange type of arachnid in New Zealand becomes one of three types of males—alpha, beta, and gamma—has been uncovered by scientists.

A: If you want to be the alpha, the answer to the bed and couch question is no.In order to understand this, we have to think from the dog's perspective and the alpha-beta roles. The leader of the ...

Mech, like many wildlife biologists, once used terms such as alpha and beta to describe the pecking order in wolf packs. But now they are decades out of date, he says.