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  Dingo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The dingo (Canis lupus dingo) is a type of wild dog, probably descended from the Indian Wolf (Canis lupus pallipes).
Dingo remains from 5,000 to 2,500 years old have been found in other parts of South-east Asia, and the earliest fossil record of dingos in Australia is 3,500 years old.
Dingos have received bad publicity in recent years as a result of the highly publicised Azaria Chamberlain disappearance and also because of dingo attacks on Fraser Island in Queensland.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dingo   (1137 words)

  
 Dingo
The Dingo (Canis lupus dingo) is a type of wolf, probably descended from the Indian Wolf (Canis lupus pallipes).
Dingos did not arrive in Australia as companions of the original Aborigines around 50,000 years ago, but seem to have been brought by seafaring Austronesian traders at about the same time as the Great Pyramids were being built in ancient Egypt.
Dingoes have received bad publicity in recent years as a result of the Azaria Chamberlain[?] baby abduction/murder and also because of Dingo attacks on Fraser Island in Queensland.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/di/Dingo.html   (990 words)

  
 Dingo - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Dingo remains from 5,000 to 2,500 years old have been found in other parts of South-east Asia, and the earliest record of Dingos in Australia is 3,500 years old.
A study of dingo mitochondrial DNA published in 2004 places their arrival at around 4000 BC, and suggests that only one small group may be the ancestors of all modern dingos.
The full extent of the ecological change brought about by the introduction of the Dingo remains unknown, but there is little doubt that it was responsible for a series of extinctions, notably of marsupial carnivores, including the last remaining large predator, the Thylacine.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Dingo   (1109 words)

  
 Dingo - BIRD
Dingo remains from 5000 to 2500 years old have been found in other parts of South-east Asia, while the earliest firm record of Dingos in Australia is 3500 years old.
Dingos did not arrive in Australia as companions of the first Aboriginal Australians around 50,000 years ago, but seem to have been brought by seafaring Austronesian traders perhaps 4000 years ago — about the same time as the Great Pyramids were being built in ancient Egypt.
Dingoes have a very similar social structure to the wolf (Canis lupus) having an alpha male and female, but instead of a pack with some unrelated animals dingoes live in a family group of up to 12 individuals.
bird.net.au /bird/index.php?title=Dingo   (1201 words)

  
 Dingo
The Dingo (Canis lupus dingo), also known as the warrigal, is a type of wolf, probably descended from the Indian Wolf (Canis lupus pallipes).
Dingos did not arrive in Australia as companions of the original Aboriginess around 50,000 years ago, but seem to have been brought by seafaring Austronesian traders at about the same time as the Great Pyramidss were being built in ancient Egypt.
It was only partly successful: Dingos can still be found in parts of the southern states to this day, and although the fence helped reduce losses of sheep to predators, this was counterbalanced by increased pasture competition from rabbitss and kangaroos.
www.knowledgefun.com /book/d/di/dingo.html   (1017 words)

  
 Dingo Resources & Information - australian dingo
The Dingo (Canis lupus dingo), is a type of wild dingo dogs dog, probably dingo loaders descended from the Indian Wolf (Canis dingo motorcycle boots manco dingo gokart lupus pallipes).
canis dingo Current thinking suggests that modern dogs are a mixture of several separate domestications of wolves at different times and in different areas: the modern Dingo appears to be a relatively pure-bred descendant dingo dog of one of the earliest domestications.
Dingos ernie dingo did not arrive in Australia as companions of the original Aborigines around 50,000 years ago, but seem to have been brought by seafaring Austronesian traders at about the same time as the Great Pyramids were being built in ancient Egypt.
www.bizhisto.com /Biz-Retail-Companies-D---Ei/Dingo.html   (1105 words)

  
 Lioncrusher's Domain -- Dingo (Canis lupus dingo) facts and pictures
Though the dingo is thought of as being a native dog of Australia, it is not truly a native species.
The shape of the skull of pure dingoes is different from hybrids or domestics as well, with pure dingoes having flatter foreheads and a squarer jawline.
Pure dingoes are at risk of hybridization with domestic dogs, which create animals that are not as wary of man and are more likely to attack sheep and cattle.
www.lioncrusher.com /animal.asp?animal=168   (1213 words)

  
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Dingo remains from 5000 to 2,500 years old have been found in other parts of South-east Asia South-east Asia, and the earliest record of Dingos in Australia is 3500 years old.
Dingos did not arrive in Australia as companions of the original Aborigine Aborigines around 50,000 years ago, but seem to have been brought by seafaring Austronesian Austronesian traders at about the same time as the Great Pyramid Great Pyramids were being built in ancient Egypt.
www.biodatabase.de /Dingo   (1013 words)

  
 Dingo (Canis lupus dingo)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Dingos are typically ginger-colored with white points in Australia, but fl and tan, or fl and white pelage patterns of purebred individuals may be found.
Dingos and domestic dogs interbreed freely and wild populations are largely hybridized throughout their range, except in Austalian national parks and other protected areas.
Although the dingo is not considered threatened or endangered, pure populations in Australia and Asia are at risk of complete hybridization due to interbreeding with domestic dogs.
www.animals-pictures-dictionary.com /rec/188-Dingo-Canis-lupus-dingo   (1298 words)

  
 Dingo - Canis lupus dingo: More Information - ARKive
Mountain dingoes have a thick double coat in the winter that is well adapted to the cold winter environment of the alpine area, and shed their undercoat during the summer months.
Dingoes have also been heavily persecuted in grazing areas due to episodic losses of livestock (2), with bounties for skin and scalps existing in some regions of Australia (1).
Research into methods of identifying pure dingoes is ongoing, and the prevention of hybridization continues to be critical to the survival of the subspecies (5).
www.arkive.org /species/GES/mammals/Canis_lupus_dingo/more_info.html   (1346 words)

  
 Dingo
However, in NSW most of the remaining dingo populations are found to the east of the state, in forests between the Great Dividing Range and the coast.
Dingos eat a wide variety of animals, but the majority of their diet (more than 50 per cent) comes from kangaroos and wallabies.
Dingos are social animals, living in family groups which defend their territory and sometimes hunt together.
www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au /npws.nsf/Content/The+dingo   (751 words)

  
 © Dr. Ellen K. Rudolph - Dingo - Canis familiaris
The Dingo is found throughout mainland Australia except where excluded from sheep grazing areas by the famous dingo fence in the east and the west.
The average adult Dingo in Australia stands 570 mm at the shoulder, is 1230 mm long from nose to tail-tip, and it weighs 15 kg; Dingoes are smaller in Asia.
Although Dingoes have won most of the battles, the cruel irony is that they are steadily losing the war, thanks to their evolutionary progeny, domestic dogs.
www.drellenrudolph.com /featureanimals/dingo.html   (932 words)

  
 Dingo
Dingoes are medium-sized dogs with yellow or orange eyes and erect ears.
Research shows dingoes are monogamous, choosing a mate when they reach maturity and forming a lifetime bond.
Dingoes share their ranges with other dingoes and are fairly social, sometimes joining together to hunt down large prey.
www.wildinfo.com /facts/Dingo.asp   (340 words)

  
 Australian Dingo
The Dingo is a medium sized dog, with a bushy tail, and red to yellow coat.
Dingos usually stay and hunt in family groups or solitare.
Dingos mate once a year, and the female dingo (bitch) gives birth to up to eight puppies.
www.australianfauna.com /dingo.php   (262 words)

  
 Dingo
Alpine Dingos are completely white, and are found in the alpine, high elevation areas of the Australian Alps.
The Dingo Fence was designed to keep Dingos out of the relatively fertile south-east part of the continent (where they had largely been exterminated) and protect the sheep flocks of southern
1990s, about a third of all wild Dingos in the south-east of the continent were hybrids, and although the process of interbreeding is less advanced in more remote areas, the extinction of the subspecies in the wild is considered inevitable.
learn.asaq.org /wp/d/Dingo.htm   (1007 words)

  
 World of Animals - The animal-lexicon over Dingo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
By the fl natives, young Dingos are captured again and again and are pulled open that becomes easily to vehicles of the human being.
Shape In the Dingo, we have a relatively slim, approximately sheepdog-big dog with middle-long muzzle, Stehohren and relatively short tail before ourselves.
Way of life We know quite little about the free-life of the Dingos what may have to do with it, that they are hated by the white Australians and are pursued inexorably as livestock-robbers.
www.world-of-animals.de /animal-lexicon/tierart_Dingo.html   (371 words)

  
 Canidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cuon and Lycaon may in fact belong in Canis, and there is evidence that Alopex and Fennecus are not valid clades, but are both part of Vulpes.
This is, however, still a controversial classification; the precise relationships among the Gray Wolf, Red Wolf, Eastern Canadian Wolf, and Coyote have yet to be worked out satisfactorily.
Dingo, Canis dingo or Canis familiaris dingo or Canis lupus dingo.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canidae   (634 words)

  
 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Canis lupus ssp. dingo
Dingoes were formerly widespread throughout the world (Corbett 1995) and although populations of wild dogs remain abundant in Australia and other countries, the proportion of pure dingoes is declining through hybridization with domestic dogs.
In Australia, pure dingoes are common in northern, north-western and central regions, rare in southern and north-eastern regions, and probably extinct in the south-eastern and south-western regions.
A related threat to dingoes in Australia concerns the actions and consequences of 'so-called' dingo preservation societies, dingo 'farms' and legislation allowing legal ownership of dingoes by members of the public because most are based on known hybrids or untested dingo stock and thus effectively increase the hybridization process (Corbett 2001).
www.iucnredlist.org /search/details.php/41585/all   (1710 words)

  
 dingo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Dingoes have received bad publicity in recent years as a result of the highly publicised Azaria Chamberlain disappearance and also because of Dingo attacks on Fraser Island in Queensland.
Ernie Dingo, a 50-year-old entertainer, was not deemed to exist in the 1961 and 1966 censuses, which ignored "wild" Aborigines.
She spent three-and-a-half years in jail, despite arguing her baby had been taken by a dingo while the family was camping at Uluru (Ayers Rock) in 1980.
www.33beat.com /dingo.html   (1192 words)

  
 BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Dingo
Dingoes are primarily a yellow to reddish-brown colour, with irregular white patches.
Dingoes feed on small mammals, especially rabbits, but also kangaroos, lizards and carrion.
Dingoes are not considered to be endangered, although interbreeding is a problem.
www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/149.shtml   (210 words)

  
 Dog Owner's guide profile: The Dingo
Whichever is the case, the Dingo resembles semi-wild dogs of Southeast Asia and the New Guinea Singing Dog found in the jungles of that island.
The Dingo (Canis lupus dingo) is a muscular, medium-sized dog with a short coat, erect ears, an angular head, and strong claws.
Dingoes need constant reinforcement of training and socialization and a willingness to be gentle yet firm at all times.
www.canismajor.com /dog/dingo.html   (1307 words)

  
 Help Save the Dingo - The Australian Dingo Conservation Association Inc (ADCA)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The most resilient Aussie battler of them all, the dingo, is walking in the shadow of death, and with it all the species which rely on it for survival, unless our cries of alarm are heard in those corridors of nature-ignorant law makers and politicians.
The future of the pure dingo in its primitive form is critical, and populations of dingoes are rapidly diminishing in all habitats across the continent.
The desperate plight of the Australian dingo parallels the near extinction of the Northern hemisphere gray wolf and the rare Ethiopian wolf.
www.dingoconservation.org /save.html   (1355 words)

  
 Genetic Diversity of the Australian Dingo (Canis lupus dingo)
It has been listed as its own species Canis dingo, as a subspecies of the grey wolf Canis lupus dingo or alternatively a subspecies of the domestic dog Canis familiaris dingo.
This paper addresses the possible answers to questions about the evolution of the Australian dingo, its genetic strength, the importance of current purebred populations and prospects for survival as a distinctive taxon.
From research conducted into the DNA of the Domestic dog (Canis familiaris) and comparative studies of the Australian dingo (Canis lupus dingo), a unique picture of the dingo has been constructed that provides us with information about the missing chapters in its evolutionary history and its hope for future survival.
s06.cgpublisher.com /proposals/49/manage_workspace   (464 words)

  
 Wolf - Canis Lupus 
The original range of Canis lupus consisted of the majority of the Northern hemisphere -- from the Arctic continuing south to a latitude of 20° S, which runs through southern Central Mexico, northern Africa, and southern Asia.
Except for red wolves (Canis rufus), all living North American wolves are considered to be Canis lupus -- a total (as of 1997) of 32 recognized subspecies.
Gray wolves are widely recognized to be the ancestor of all domestic dog breeds (Canis lupus familiaris), including feral forms such as dingos (Canis lupus dingo) and New Guinea singing dogs (Canis lupus halstromi).
www.free-press.biz /animals/Wolf.html   (2302 words)

  
 The Australian dingo: a wolf in dog’s clothing
For many years, the dingo was best known as the wild dog of Australia—the largest carnivore on the Australian mainland—and for being the scourge of the sheep industry.
The dingo is unmistakably canine—as was evident to the early European settlers, who eagerly crossed their imported herding dogs with the dingo in order to obtain breeds better adapted to the harsh Australian climate.
The dingo’s close resemblance to domestic dogs in Asia, its association with Aboriginal people and the fact that it was the only large placental mammal (except humans) on the continent led many to say its ancestors were domestic dogs.
www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v27/i2/dingo.asp   (2919 words)

  
 Dingo - Canis lupus dingo
The Dingo is a primitive dog which evolved from the Indian Wolf about 6000 years ago.
The dingo has been very successful in establishing a presence throughout Australia from the rainforest to the outback.
The species is in danger of genetic extinction due to interbreeding with domestic dogs.
www.anhs.com.au /dingo.htm   (91 words)

  
 Canis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canis is a genus that includes several of the modern wolf and jackal species, including the Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) which is thought to be the ancestor of the Domestic Dog (Canis lupus familiaris).
Molecular evidence indicate that Cuon is actualy part of Canis.
It is an old genus (but very advanced), dating back to the Miocene.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canis   (158 words)

  
 Dingo and The Australian Dingo Conservation Association Inc (ADCA) - All about the Dingo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Australian Dingo Conservation Association is a non-profit organisation formed to protect the Australian Dingo and to lobby Governments, amend legislation, remove the dingo from the noxious list in all States and Territories and to promote scientific research on the dingo to maintain a pure gene pool of dingoes.
To establish and maintain a register for all dingoes known to be pure, to record births, deaths, transfers and ownership details.
Social behaviour: Dingoes may live in family packs; an alpha breeding pair and their offspring of current and past years; adolescent or old adults ousted from the family group may form loose groups.
www.dingoconservation.org   (594 words)

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