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In the third edition of Mammal Species of the World published in 2005, the mammalogist W. Christopher Wozencraft listed under the wolf Canis lupus its wild subspecies, and proposed two additional subspecies: "familiaris Linnaeus, 1758 [domestic dog]" and "dingo Meyer, 1793 [domestic dog]", with the comment "Includes the domestic dog as a ...
The purpose of the Dog Fence Act 1946 is to prevent wild dogs entering into the pastoral and agricultural areas south of the dog-proof fence. The dingo is listed as a "wild dog" under this act, and landowners are required to maintain the fence and destroy any wild dog within the vicinity of the fence by shooting, trapping or baiting.
At this point, it connects with the South Australian Border Fence, which runs for 257 km (160 mi) southwards along the border with New South Wales, [9] these two sections are managed by the New South Wales Wild Dog Destruction Board. [10] It then joins a section known as the Dog Fence in South Australia, which is 2,225 km (1,383 mi) long. [1]
The New South Wales section of the Dingo Fence runs 606 kilometres (377 mi), starting at Hungerford on the Queensland border and ends near Broken Hill on the South Australian border. [2] The Wild Dog Destruction Board is staffed by 12–14 'doggers' who check the entire fence line twice a week, these staff being based in some of the most ...
Wild dog may also refer to: Feral dog, domestic dogs living as wild animals; Dingo, or Australian wild dog, a free-ranging dog found in Australia; African wild dog, or African hunting dog, wild canine of Africa; Asiatic wild dog, or dhole, wild canine of Asia; Wild Dog, a 2012 album by Susanna, also known as Susanna and the Magical Orchestra
An unlikely four-legged hero is being credited with saving hundreds of animals from the raging Australian wildfires last week.. On New Year's Eve, Stephen Hill arrived at the farm where he works ...
An Australian sailor and his dog have been found alive after being stranded in the Pacific Ocean for two months. In April, Tim Shaddock, a 51-year-old from Sydney, Australia, and his dog, Bella ...
A Dingo-dog hybrid is a cross between a dingo and a domestic dog.The current population of free ranging domestic dogs in Australia is probably higher than in the past. However, the proportion of the so-called "pure" [1] dingoes (dogs with exclusively dingo-ancestry) has been on the decrease over the last few decades due to hybridisation and is regarded as further decre