dingo
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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
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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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