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Dingo on the beach at Fraser Island, Queensland. The dingo (either included in the species Canis familiaris, or considered one of the following independent taxa: Canis familiaris dingo, Canis dingo, or Canis lupus dingo) is an ancient lineage of dog [5] [6] found in Australia.
In the 1995 episode of The Simpsons "Bart vs. Australia", when Bart receives a call from Australia to complain about a prank call, he responds, "Hey, I think I hear a dingo eating your baby!" [3] In the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the character Oz belonged to a band called Dingoes Ate My Baby. [4]
A dingo on K'gari in Queensland.. Dingo attacks on humans are rare in Australia, and when they do occur are generally on young children and small teenagers. [1] [2] However, dingoes are much more of a danger to livestock, especially to sheep and young cattle. [3]
Tourists have been warned to be wary of dingoes while travelling in Australia following a series of attacks on toddlers at a popular holiday destination in Queensland.. Four bites by the native ...
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. Sarah ...
Since the Chamberlain case, proven cases of attacks on humans by dingoes have been discussed in the public domain, in particular dingo attacks on K'gari (off the Queensland coast), the last refuge in Australia for isolated pure-bred wild dingoes. In the wake of these attacks, it emerged that there had been at least 400 documented dingo attacks ...
A pack of dingoes drove a woman who was jogging into the surf and attacked her in the latest clash between native dogs and humans on a popular Australian island, sparking new warnings Tuesday to ...
The dingo was the first placental mammal introduced to Australia by humans. Australia has indigenous placental mammals from two orders: the bats, order Chiroptera, represented by six families, and the mice and rats, order Rodentia, family Muridae. Bats and rodents are relatively recent arrivals to Australia.