dingo
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Wildlife experts said killing the animals was the wrong response and may threaten the island's dingo population, estimated at just 70-200 animals.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
Altadena was where people raised chickens before it was trendy, where no one batted an eye at the neighbors with a pet dingo, or thought much about the so-called haunted road said to defy gravity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026
She was falsely convicted of murder after her infant daughter Azaria was taken from an outback campsite by a dingo.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
The researchers examined remains at the Curracurrang archaeological site, south of Sydney, where radiocarbon dating of dingo bones revealed the animals were buried alongside humans as far back as 2,000 years ago.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2023
To Aboriginal Australia, isolated from Eurasia by the water barriers of the Indonesian Archipelago, Eurasia’s sole proven contribution was the dingo.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The remains came from both native and introduced animals, including cows, kangaroos, emus, sheep, pigs, dingoes, rabbits, possums, quolls and swamp rats.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
About 200 dingoes live on K'Gari and are protected as a native species by law.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
Six of the dingoes had already been euthanised, the state's environment minister, Andrew Powell, told reporters Sunday.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
They’re threatened by conflict with humans, dogs and dingoes and a disease called Devil Facial Tumor Disease that only affects the species.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2025
He counted the different footprints, and announced to the horsemen that seven dingoes had followed the trail they were following at that moment.
From Finn The Wolfhound by Robert Hugh Buxton
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