dingo
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K'gari-Fraser Island in Queensland, a popular tourist destination with World Heritage status, is also home to some 200 wild dingos.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2023
There are a number of reasons why this happened to dingos.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2022
They compared all of these sequences with the available genomes of a variety of canids, such as foxes, coyotes, dingos, various wolves, and modern dogs from around the world.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 18, 2021
And they started with the dingos because they thought people would take to them well because they were like wee doggies?
From Nature • Oct. 18, 2016
Native Australians kept captive dingos as companions, watchdogs, and even as living blankets, giving rise to the expression “five-dog night” to mean a very cold night.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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