Using the Behavior of Wild Animals to Stereotype Humans

Some will claim smaller animals are more aggressive, then use that to prove how stereotypes about short men are real. Here's one example:

"The Napoleon complex has been observed in animals too. Smaller animals pick fights with bigger ones, and sometimes win these contests by playing dirty. In a 1995 study of swordtail fish, 78% of observed fights were initiated by the smaller fish."

But many also acknowledge how larger animals tend to dominate smaller ones:

In the wild and in captivity, chimpanzee colonies organize themselves into tightly structured hierarchies. Power is vested in the biggest, strongest, and most outgoing males in the group, with the alpha male on top. The alpha leader dominates all others through tactics of threat, intimidation, bluffing, and outright aggression – and importantly, by forming short-term, pragmatic coalitions (let us call them “deals”) with other high-status males.

In ethology — the study of animal behavior — the term “alpha” refers to an individual with the highest rank in a social group... Achieving alpha status often depends on physical prowess: the biggest, strongest member of a group typically claims the alpha title; and he or she may need to physically dominate — or even kill — potential rivals in order to secure that claim. “In primates, the alpha male is the one who can literally beat up every other male. So the position depends entirely on physical violence.”

Is that not what the food chain is also all about? Yet I wonder if any researcher in history has used this to make tall men look bad, for example by claiming tall men are scientifically more likely to be bullies. Due to the halo effect, the general populace would likely not gobble this up as readily as they did when the Napoleon complex was first popularized.

So basically smaller wild creatures are enough to paint short men with a broad brush, but I doubt larger wild animals are enough to negatively generalize tall men, especially on a professional level.

Also note how people nowadays would be offended if animals are used to make negative claims regarding race, gender, etc. Just remember that science is either correct or false, and neither political correctness nor history changes that fact. So if you're the kind of person who thinks it's ridiculous to make claims about the groups you care about using wild animals, how can one not scoff when this happens with short stature?