Examples of alpha male

• However, if an alpha male exhibits a new behavior it may spread rapidly to the rest of the group.

• My guess is, relatively minor differences of emphasis and rhetoric plus the good old primate desire to be alpha male, or at least, alpha male's top henchman.

• A dominant individual (usually the alpha male) leads the group to easily monopolized resources.

• The dominance status of male macaques usually changes when a former alpha male leaves or dies.

• Other ways in which status changes is when an alpha male loses his rank or when a troop splits, leaving a new alpha position.

• Only the alpha male is ever seen to mate with the female.

• Higher-ranking animals get preference for food and resting sites, and the alpha male gets primary mating rights.

• It is named after the alpha male of the zoo's lion pride.