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...lves unattached to a pack. Researchers confirmed a confrontation between the east pack and the Chippewa Harbor pack, with the east pack's alpha male killed. Peterson's team found that particular wolf, one of four on the island wearing a radio collar, just offshore in Lake Superior. "The Chippewa Harbor pack has be......er individuals tend to back off without a physical confrontation when the big spiders are building their webs." Interestingly when the researchers removed the big spiders from the colonies, the little ones finished their webs over an hour earlier because they were not being hassled....