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dingo

[ding-goh] / ˈdɪŋ goʊ /




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An autopsy conducted on James' body found evidence "consistent with drowning" but also detected injuries corresponding to dingo bites.

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

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

Rangers said that dingo was the offspring of a collared mother that had taught her pups their dangerous ways.

From Seattle Times Jul. 19, 2023

Jane and Michael had a good view of what was happening, through a gap between a panther and a dingo.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers

In 2023, a woman jogging along a beach on K'Gari was attacked by dingoes, forcing her to run into the ocean.

From BBC Mar. 5, 2026

Australian authorities have sparked a backlash by killing a group of dingoes linked to the death of a young Canadian woman on an island in the country's east.

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

The burials weren't the only sign that Australia's First Peoples domesticated wild dingoes, however, with severely worn teeth found at the site suggesting a diet heavy in large bones, likely from scraps from human meals.

From Science Daily Oct. 20, 2023

As to the dingoes, he arrived at a conclusion very speedily.

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables




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