Like why aren’t lions total roid monsters if only the strongest male gets to breed the females?
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I don’t know whether lions are animals which have an “alpha” in the pack, but I think the role of alpha is misunderstood a lot of the time. In chimps for example the alpha may be very physically strong, but it will also typically be reciprocal in grooming for example, and not completely tyrannical.
If an alpha chimp makes all of the other male chimps lives hell, 2 or 3 weaker chimps will just take him down, so being strong isn’t necessarily enough, your behaviour has to be such that it benefits the tribe overall. To have lasting power you need stability, and to have stability you need the approval of the other chimps in the tribe. Therefore the most aggressive chimps don’t necessarily make the best leaders. They need to be just aggressive enough to rule but not turn everybody else against them.
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