Alpha status

Laura_91

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Hi,
I've not paid much attention to this recently but I just spent cc on a gold female wild dog and she hasn't become alpha even though she is the biggest in the pack. I know it used to work this way but now when I rehome the alphas because they are too old to breed it just seems to make the next oldest dog alpha even if their stats are the worst. How am I supposed to breed the best animals if they arent fighting for alpha anymore and the best dog winning?
 

Dinocanid

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The way I do it (for AWDs and wolves), is to place all the animals that I don't want to be the alphas in either the trading center or quarantine. With the other ones gone, the ones left in the enclosure will automatically become the alphas and I move the rest of the pack back in.
 

Dinocanid

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This change was made way back in 1.1.0 (IE: the arctic pack release) since wolves and AWDs do not fight for alpha status IRL. The alphas are usually the parents, the offspring might split off to start their own pack when old enough (although pack splitting doesn't exist in PZ, so alpha status is just transferred instead)
 

Sapyx

Sapyx
If left to their own devices, canines in PZ (wild dogs and the two wolf species) will come to a gentlebeing's agreement based purely on seniority, as the OP has observed: the oldest dogs of each gender become the Alphas, and they stay Alpha until removed from the pack or they die. So it requires some "marriage counselling" on your part to pair up the two most desirable parents: either put them in the habitat alone, or make sure all the other dogs in the habitat are younger than the desired match-ups.

Unrelated female hyenas will still continually fight to the death to become Alpha (I haven't had hyenas long enough to see if daughters join the fray too), so the part of the Zoopedia that implies that hyena packs can happily have multiple unrelated females is lying.
 

Chante Goodman

Community Manager
Frontier
The Spotted Hyenas aren't suitable for the same pack system as the Wolves.
In captivity, adults should be kept in compatible pairs and trios. Although Hyenas live in large groups in the wild, they live in a fission-fusion society where they do not spend all their time together and often roam alone or in small groups. They are an aggressive species, so large groups in an enclosed space could result in violent interactions.
Cubs can be separated from their parents when they are juveniles may be kept in several sibling groups of 5-7, although may need to be separated if they begin to fight.

@Sapyx has made an excellent comment there about "marriage counselling! It is spot on :)
 
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