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dingo

[ding-goh] / ˈdɪŋ goʊ /




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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

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

About 200 dingoes live on K'Gari and are protected as a native species by law.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026

Wildlife managers, rangers, Indigenous people and tourism operators need to work together so that humans and dingoes can coexist on the island, he said.

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

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2023

The movements of these dingoes, once they reached within a couple of miles of Bill's gunyah, would have interested any student of the wild.

From Finn The Wolfhound by Robert Hugh Buxton


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