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Dingo on the beach at Fraser Island, Queensland. The dingo (either included in the species Canis familiaris, or considered one of the following independent taxa: Canis familiaris dingo, Canis dingo, or Canis lupus dingo) is an ancient lineage of dog [5] [6] found in Australia.
A dingo on K'gari in Queensland.. Dingo attacks on humans are rare in Australia, and when they do occur are generally on young children and small teenagers. [1] [2] However, dingoes are much more of a danger to livestock, especially to sheep and young cattle. [3]
The Dingo Fence or Dog Fence is a pest-exclusion fence in Australia to keep dingoes out of the relatively fertile south-east part of the continent (where they have largely been exterminated) and protect the sheep flocks of southern Queensland.
The wild Australian dogs are generally not aggressive, but attacks on people and their pets have been recorded. Some dingoes that are considered to be aggressive are monitored by rangers with tags.
It can grow up to 3 metres (9.8 ft) long and weigh as much as 400 kilograms (880 lb). The dugong is the only herbivorous marine mammal in Australia, feeding on sea grass in coastal areas. Ten species of seals and sea lions (parvorder Pinnipedia) live off the southern Australian coast and in Sub-Antarctic Australian territories.
Only the New Guinea singing dog and dingoes from northeastern Australia showed haplotype H60, which implies a genetic relationship and that the dingo reached Australia from New Guinea. Haplotype H60 and H3 could be found among the southern Australian dingoes with H3 dominant, but haplotype H3 could only be found in the west of the continent and ...
Wildlife authorities have killed the leader of a pack of dingoes that mauled a jogger on a popular Australian tourist island in a ferocious attack that a rescuer said could have been fatal. Sarah ...
The Australian Dingo Foundation believes Wandi was scooped up by an eagle and dropped into rural Australian backyard. A puppy was dropped into a yard in Australia — it turns out he's actually a ...