dingo

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

Piper James, 19, had "physical evidence consistent with drowning" and "injuries consistent with dingo bites", a spokesperson for the Coroners Court of Queensland told BBC news.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 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

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

The dingo reached Australia at the peak of the Austronesian expansion from South China through Indonesia.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The euthanisation programme has stirred debate about how to manage the local population of dingoes, a sandy-coloured canine believed to have first arrived in Australia 4,000 to 5,000 years ago.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

The area is known for its population of dingoes, a wild species of native dog that is protected in Queensland national parks.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 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

"This reflects the close bond between people and dingoes and their almost-human status."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2023

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