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		A Little About The Dingo ^Votes:0 A Little About The Dingo What is a Dingo? The Dingo, Canis familiaris: Breed: dingo is a member of a group of primitive dogs characterised by short coats, erect ears, characteristic skull shape and teeth and, most importantly an annual breeding cycle. It is a medium built, elegant and active dog of great nimbleness and agility with a head and body length of 860 - 980 mm and tail length of 260 - 380 mm. Adults generally weigh between 10 and 20 kg. The "typical" colour is ginger with white feet, chest and tail tip, although animals of other colours including sable, black, and white are often found. Dingoes are predominantly carnivorous, but will eat a wide variety of foods including plant material and insects. Their annual breeding season commonly begins in earnest in autumn continuing into Read More Go to Site

		Australia's Lost Kingdoms - Dingo ^Votes:0 Australia's Lost Kingdoms Australia's reptiles, birds and mammals from the Cretaceous to the present Australia's Lost Kingdoms site sections Australia's Lost Kingdoms home In this section Cretaceous Eocene Early to middle Miocene Late Miocene Pliocene Pleistocene Holocene Dingo (Canis lupus dingo ) Dingo. Photo: © Australian Museum. Lived: 10,000 years ago (Holocene) to the present; first definite occurrence in Australia 3000-4000 years ago Size: Length (head and body): 1.2m Description: The Dingo is now Australia's largest living land-based carnivore. It originated on the south-east Asian mainland between 6000 and 10,000 years ago and was brought to Australia by seafaring Asian peoples around 3000 to 4000 years ago. Soon after the Dingo arrived, Australia's largest marsupial carnivores of Read More Go to Site

		Australian Dingo, Australian native dog, - Aussie-Info.com ^Votes:0 Web aussie-info.com November 23, 2007 Home About Australia Tourist Info Explore Australia Links What's New Contact Email Fauna About Australia overview Introduction 1. Bandicoot 2. Dingo 3. Echidna 4. Kangaroo 5. Koala 6. Platypus 7. Wombat 8. Black Swan 9. Emu 10. Kookaburra 11. Lyrebird 12. Cockatoo Dingo (or Warrigal) The origins of the dingo are obscure and there is much controversy. It is not truly native to Australia but is thought to have arrived between 3500 and 4000 years ago. Whatever its origins, the dingo was a highly valued companion to the Aborigines. They were hunting companions, guard dogs, the dingos kept them warm at night. Some believe they were brought here on rafts or boats by the ancestral aborigines. It has also been suggested that they came with Indonesian or South- Read More Go to Site

		CSIRO Corporate Media Release 95/68 ^Votes:0 [ Level Up ] [Doc Top] [ Doc End ] [Next Item] [ Home Page ] CSIRO CORPORATE MEDIA RELEASE 95/68 16 July 1995 NO MORE YELLOW DOG DINGO? The dingo, Australia's only native dog, could be extinct within the next 50 to 100 years. But it is not poisoning, shooting or trapping which directly threatens the dingo, rather the dingo's ability to cross breed, or hybridise, with domestic dogs. World dingo expert, Dr Laurie Corbett, from the CSIRO's Division of Wildlife and Ecology in Darwin, says the dingo's gene pool is being swamped by feral and domestic dogs. At the launch of his book, The Dingo in Australia and Asia, last Friday at the Fowlers Gap Arid Zone Research Station, near Broken Hill in outback New South Wales, Dr Corbett said that only about half of the wild dogs in eastern Australia were Read More Go to Site

		Dingo ^Votes:0 Dingo The dingo was probably introduced to Australia when the Aborigines arrived.Even though it is not a native animal, this member of the dog family hasbeen a part of the Australian ecosystem for 3,000 to 4,000 years. Dingos and sheep ranchers are in conflict as the dingos try to takesheep. To protect livestock, the Australian government built a 5,000 km(3000 mi) long dingo fence. The fence is nearly 2 meters (6 ft.) high andextends about 30 cm underground to keep the dingos from digging under it. The dingo does play an important role in the Australian ecosystem. Theyhelp keep the wild rabbit population in balance. This in turn helps tokeep the native vegetation from being over-grazed. ©2000 The Wild Ones c/o Wildlife Trust 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964-8000 Tel : 845.365.8337 F Read More Go to Site

		Dingo ^Votes:0 The Dingo! The dingo is a wild dog that lives in the dry plains and forests of Australia. Scientists and dog breeders are not quite sure where this rare species of dog has come from, but they think that it might have been brought to Australia 3,500 years ago. Some of these dogs were trained by the Aborigines to be hunting dogs, and on cold nights they would be used as a "living blanket" on cold nights. Dingoes are medium in size and their fur is a yellowish-tan color but it varies from a light cream to black. It has keen eyesight, large ears, and a great sense of smell. They don't bark like Fido at home but give a long, sad howl. They will hunt alone or in small packs, and they will eat rats, birds, kangaroos, some farm animals, rabbits, and for a midnight snack, a lizard or two. Read More Go to Site

		Dingo (Canis dingo) ^Votes:0 theBIGzoo Only theBIGcastle Only theBIGgalaxy Only All Sites Home : Zoo : Mammals : Meat-Eaters : The Dog Family :Dingo Photo Panel Dingo Click Here to Use This Photo Quick Facts Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Canidae Genus: Canis Species: dingo Length: 44 inches Weight: 77 lbs Gestation: 63 days Life Span: 3 - 7 years Sponsored Links Dingo Canis dingo Dingoes look very much like a large dog. The primary differences are mating habits, longer canine teeth, and the formation of their skull. Dingoes vary in color from sandy beige to a darker reddish ginger color. They usually have sporadic white markings on their tail and underbelly. Dingoes, being carnivorous , will eat whatever meat they can get. Until the rabbit was introduced to Australia, kang Read More Go to Site

		Dingo Sanctuary - Home of Australia's Native Dog ^Votes:0 Welcome to the Dingo's Voice on the Web! Coo-ee from York, Pennsylvania, which is a long way from most of the world's Dingoes. This site, which belongs to David Steward is being redesigned as an informational resource, which means it's a "place" where you can learn about ... well, what else? Dingoes, of course! Welcome to my den! My "alma mater" for practical canine behaviour was the Dingo Sanctuary in Bargo, New South Wales, Australia, where I learned from a hairy horde of four-legged experts I remember fondly. To contact their human caretakers, try Debbie or Denise . This site aims to promote the welfare and encourage the preservation of dingoes as a unique isolate of early domesticated dogs, dispelling myth and fostering an improved understanding of this much maligned species. Backgroun Read More Go to Site

		dingo. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 ^Votes:0 Select Search ----- All Bartleby.com ----- All Reference ----- Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia Cultural Literacy World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations Respectfully Quoted English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Brewer's Phrase & Fable Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough ----- All Verse ----- Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordswo Read More Go to Site

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