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Researchers previously thought dingoes were distance cousins of domestic dogs, though still genetically similar enough to ...
As adorably dog-like as they may appear, Australia's dingoes have had a complicated, bad-to-the-bone reputation throughout history. Farmers and land-owners Down Under have long seen the canine ...
There’s a lot more to learn about the Australian canines than their baby-snatching reputations would suggest. The dingo is not a dog breed. Technically, dingoes are not a breed of dog.
Wildlife authorities have killed the leader of a pack of dingoes that mauled a jogger on a popular Australian tourist island in a ferocious attack that a rescuer said could have been fatal.
Australia does not have a single and consistent animal welfare and protection regime. Instead, protections are fractured between the states. That is why the current challenge to dingo culling is ...
Were dingoes domesticated or wild when they arrived in Australia? Were they descendants of pet dogs that turned feral on a new continent, or wolves on their way to becoming dogs that never got there?
Wildlife rangers were forced to take brutal decision after a dingo was stabbed with a pocketknife in an attempt to free child ...
Analysis of ancient DNA from dingoes suggests that Australia’s native wild dogs arrived in two waves of migration between 3000 and 8000 years ago and show little evidence of interbreeding with ...
Until very recently, it was assumed that Australian canines came in three varieties. There were native dingoes roaming the bush, distant cousins of dogs that arrived from Asia thousands of years ago.