malik – Apr 4, 2005 12:00 AM

Malik has shown that he's not convinced that Shadow should be running the pack. These brothers continue to posture with each other, showing high tails, growling and pushing each other around. There may be a possiblity that there's a truce to their dominance order. In the wild, where the struggle for survival is so much greater than captivity and the dominant pack members are usually the breeding pair, there wouldn't likely be this kind of uncertainty. In captivity, there's plenty of time to work out differences, and Malik is taking his time and shows very little sign of accepting the # 2 role.