Black wolf looks like the alpha male

This spectacular photo of a large black timber wolf was taken near camp by my brother-in-law, Ron Wink.
We think he is the alpha male -- the male leader -- of the pack. There are a couple of reasons for this.
For starters, no other wolf came near him in our photos. If you look in the background of the shot at the bottom you can see another, tawny-coloured, wolf in the background. The male black wolf was also the largest wolf.
The night Ron got this photo on his trail camera, we heard all the wolves howling. That's something wolves do when they are packing-up in the fall. Again, it takes a leader to create a pack.
Finally, when the black wolf left, he took all the other wolves with him. We had photographed many other wolves for days until the night he appeared.
Even though there were still moose parts left to chew upon, all the canines vanished from our trail cameras for a long time. Finally, a lone tawny wolf came back to finish up the scraps.