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
It's said that a dog is a man's best friend, but the wild dingo is much maligned in Australia.
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
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