<\/a><\/p>\nThe dingo is a fine looking animal, unique to our continent and it roams freely around the Outback.<\/p>\n
It’s features distinguish it from other dogs. It yelps or howls but doesn’t bark. Dingoes are usually cream to reddish brown in colour like this one. Their ears are always erect.<\/p>\n
Together with feral domestic dogs they have long been a real menace to the sheep industry which loses large numbers of animals to dog attacks.<\/p>\n
These days there’s probably more domestic dogs that turn wild, or domestic dogs that have interbred with the dingo causing the problems for pastoralists and that requires widespread baiting programs.<\/p>\n
The cattle industry, on the other hand is not affected by the dingo which generally lives on kangaroos, rabbits and other small animals and reptiles.<\/p>\n
Dingos are thought to have been introduced into Australia thousands of year ago and are related to dogs of South East Asia.<\/p>\n
This was shot on a long zoom (300mm) at f8, 1\/1250 sec, ISO 200. I haven’t cropped this photography mainly to put the dingo in the country it normally roams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Dingo - Peter MacDonald Photo<\/title>\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n