Dingoes eat meat, and farmers do not like them because they eat sheep.
If you visit a place where there are dingoes, you must watch your children.
The dingo is a dog, but it is not a pet!
We think the first dingoes came to Australia with people many thousands of years ago.
A dingo—a female, and possibly our friend with the pups—had followed us persistently all day.
Further investigation disclosed a lean and fierce-looking dingo down our well, which, in its frantic struggles to get out, had covered up our little pool of water and made a horrible mess of things.
No doubt some good water-hole exists amongst these hills, judging from the tracks of kangaroos, turkeys, and dingoes.
The dingo of Australia is thought to be derived from some imported variety of dog.
These three—the kangaroo, the opossum, and the dingo,—are the principal beasts of Australia.
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It is difficult to understand how pastoralists could forget that eradication of dingoes was an essential prerequisite for unshepherded sheep.
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However, the mainland squatters had to persist with nightly yarding until dingoes were eradicated.
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With strychnine controlling dingoes, and better land tenure, conditions were ripe for the end of shepherding.
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A canvas flap served as a door, and allowed the hutkeeper to exit rapidly if dingoes attacked the sheep.
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More likely, pastoralists found that fencing, once dingoes were controlled, led to substantial savings in wages.
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Each evening, the sheep walked back to the station, where they were counted back into the folds and spent the night protected against dingoes by the hutkeeper.
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Chamberlain's conviction was later overturned when evidence surfaced that dingoes had indeed been responsible for the tragedy.
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The thylacine was also much less versatile in diet than the omnivorousdingo.
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There is also evidence of seal, dolphin, a range of marsupials,dingoand even whale.
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Occasionally adingo, koala or wombat may be among the animals to be spotted on this route.
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The reserve is outside of thedingofence, which borders it in the south.
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Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys.
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After the 2001 attack, four dedicated rangers were allocateddingomanagement roles and ranger patrols were increased.
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At various times, bounties have been in place for invasive species such as wild-living domestic dogs (including thedingo) and fox.
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