The document provides information about the Australian dingo. It discusses how dingoes arrived in Australia approximately 5,000-11,000 years ago. It describes dingoes as lithe, athletic predators with superior senses. The document also mentions that dingoes live and hunt in family packs. Dingoes play an important ecological role in Australia by controlling populations of invasive species like foxes and feral cats. However, dingoes are threatened by crossbreeding with domestic dogs and persecution by humans.

1. Australian Dingo
(Canis Lupus Dingo)
By Richard Polglaze

2. Indian Grey Wolf (Canis Lupus Pallipes)
(removed from other wolf species approx. 400,000yrs)

3. Arrived approx. 35,000 yrs after Aboriginals 1st
came to Australia,
arrived 5,000 – 11,000 yrs ago.
It was not bred by man’s so called aesthetic lines;
Survival of the fittest;
Weaker members eliminated from the gene pool.
The Dingo is
Lithe
Extremely athletic
Superior eyesight, hearing and scenting abilities
Australian Dingo

4. Dingo - Canis dingo
Fast Facts
Type:
Mammal
Diet:
Carnivore
Size:
Head and body, 3.5 to 4 ft (1.1 to 1.2 m); Tail, 12 to 13 in
(30 to 33 cm)
Weight:
22 to 33 lbs (10 to 15 kg) Fast Facts
Group name:
Pack
Size relative to a 6-ft (2-m) man:

5. Dingo (Canis lupus dingo)
The Dingo is Australia's wild dog. It is found in Australia, in all states but Tasmania. They are found throughout
the mainland of Australia, close to a source of water.
The Dingo is a medium sized dog, with a bushy tail, and red to yellow coat. Dingos do not bark, but they do howl.
It is not a native animal to Australia, and it is unsure how it arrived on our land, but the current theories are:
* Dingos were brought to Australia 15,000 years ago by Koori people.
* Dingos may be related to wild dogs in South East Asia, and taken to Australia for trade by sea-farers.
They are meat eaters, and try to feed mainly on this. If unavailable, dingos have been known to eat reptiles, and
any food source it can find. When food is scarce, dingos group together to feed on larger animals such as
kangaroos. 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. The puppies are weened
for two months.
Amazing Fact: When the puppies are two months old, the mother then regurgitates food for the pups for another
two months.
After the pups are about four months old, they then begin hunting small game such as rabbits.

6. Canis lupus pallipes

7. Geographic range of the Dingo (Canis lupus dingo)

8. Carolina Dog or Dixie Dog

9. Dingo or Warrigal)

10. New Guinea Singing Dog

11. Canis Lupus Dingo

12. The Dog (Canis Lupus Familiaris)
SE Asia to Europe ………..

13. Canis lupus pallipes (supposed Canis indica)
Dingo

15. 3 types of Dingo
Desert Dingo
Alpine Dingo
Tropical Dingo
Possibly a 4th
……Fraser Island Dingo
Various colour morphs.

16. Dingo Puppies - Dingoes produce one litter of puppies per year.

18. Dingo Fence at Igy Corner, SW of Coober Pedy

19. A portion of the dingo fence near Coober Pedy

20. It was built in Australia during the 1880s and finished in 1885.
It is one of the longest structures in the world and is the world's longest fence.
It stretches 5,614 km (3,488 mi)
The Dingo Fence or Dog Fence is a pest exclusion fence
Jimbar Qld to Eyre Peninsula
2.4 metres high
Buried 30cm underground

21. Dingo Fence on the 29th parallel of latitude. Sturt National Park (right of fence) - looking east from
Cameron Corner after rain

23. Azaria Chantel Loren Chamberlain (born 11 June 1980 in Mount Isa,
Queensland) was a nine-week-old Australian baby girl, who disappeared
on the night of 17 August 1980 on a camping trip to Ayers Rock (also
called Uluru) with her family. Her body was never found. Her parents,
Lindy and Michael Chamberlain, reported that she had been taken from
their tent by a dingo.
An initial inquest, highly critical of the police investigation, supported
this assertion. The findings of the inquest were broadcast live on
television—a first in Australia. Subsequently, after a further
investigation and second inquest, Azaria's mother, Lindy Chamberlain,
was tried for murder. Lindy was convicted of murder on 29 October 1982
and sentenced to life imprisonment. Azaria's father, Michael
Chamberlain, was convicted as an accessory after the fact and given a
suspended sentence.
The media focus for the trial was extraordinarily intense and
sensational. The Chamberlains made several unsuccessful appeals,
including the final High Court appeal.
After all legal options had been exhausted, the chance discovery of a
piece of Azaria's clothing in an area full of dingo lairs led to Lindy
Chamberlain's release from prison, on "compassionate grounds." She
was later exonerated of all charges. While the case is officially
unsolved, the report of a dingo attack is generally accepted. Recent
deadly dingo attacks in other areas of Australia have strengthened the
case for the dingo theory.
Azaria Chantel Loren Chamberlain

24. Nearly Extinct: The Pure Dingo

25. Dingo and the eco-system
Top mammalian land predator of Australia
…. A keystone species
Important role in eco system & as a controller
- keeps marsupial levels stable; and
- control feral cats and foxes
Dingoes biggest killer is man
and
Biggest threat is cross breeding

26. The Dingo - survival
Truly Australian and not Alien;
- name as a threatened species
- pure dingoes will become extinct in the wild
What to do;
- recognised as a national icon
- allocate large areas of land with suitable fencing
- stop baiting national parks

27. Let’s work together to save natures
masterpiece …..
Thank you …..