Alphas? What do they mean?

[KingeOrge]

I just bought the latest DLC and I was surprised to see now some dinosaurs that randomly come out Alphas... What does this mean, how does it influence our game? Can I create Alphas myself? Thanks in advance for your clarification, and thanks Frontier for this great DLC!
I hope that in future updates we can create our own hybrids ourselves by crossing the dinosaurs we want, that would be amazingly impressive.

[Lora Craft69]

I think you will find most of the information you seek in the announcement page, more precisely under the "free update", There is all the information about alpha's and group behavior.
https://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791461982466/announcements/detail/3464852952292133263

Edit: One thing I have to add.
Only Dinosaur species capable of contesting leadership have an Alpha.
So all the Dinosaur species that don't have a combat animation don't have Alpha's but will still herd.

[Teratus]

That's a feature from the free update not the DLC ^^

Alphas are basically pack leaders and usually defined by the highest dino rating in their group.
They're kinda like magnets for others of their species who will tend to follow them around or stay reasonably close to them like herds are supposed to be.

It's a good counter for old large pen problems where social dinosaurs would aimlessly wander off and end up far enough away from the rest they'd get lonely and stressed out XD