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 remains came from both native and introduced animals, including cows, kangaroos, emus, sheep, pigs, dingoes, rabbits, possums, quolls and swamp rats.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 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

About 200 dingoes live on World Heritage-listed K'Gari, according to the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service.

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

As he reached the end of the gunyah, a kind of roar burst from his swelling chest and, in that instant, the two dingoes flung themselves forward in flight, Finn after them.

From Finn The Wolfhound by Robert Hugh Buxton