Dingo

The name "dingo" comes from the Dharug language of the Darug people in Sydney, Australia; include tingku for a bitch.

Because its forebears were gray wolves, which were domesticated, the dingo is thought of as a feral dog. The dingo is a medium-sized canid that has been specially developed for speed, agility, and stamina. It also has a lean, sturdy body. The largest, wedge-shaped, and disproportionately big component of the body is the head.

The light ginger (or light tan), the black and tan, and the creamy white are the dingo's three primary coat hues, respectively. Compared to nine genes in the domestic dog, just three genes determine coat color in dingoes. The three primary hues of black, tan, and white are carried by the dominant color of ginger. Dingoes that are white or black and tan are true breeders, and when these two breed, the offspring have a sandy hue. Their tail is flattish, tapered after midlength, and carried low rather than curving over the back. Unlike their forebears and relatives, these lack dewclaws.

The Norwegian Lundehund, which was created on remote Norwegian islands to hunt in cliff and rocky terrain, has a similar adaption. This talent is not present in gray wolves. By biting their prey in the throat until death, they cause harm to the trachea and the neck's main blood veins.

Dingoes tend to be nocturnal in warmer regions, but less so in cooler areas. Their main period of activity is around dusk and dawn. Dingoes, dingo hybrids, and feral dogs usually attack from the rear as they pursue their prey. They kill their prey by biting the throat, which damages the trachea and the major blood vessels of the neck. The size of the hunting pack is determined by the type of prey targeted, with large packs formed to help hunt large prey. The dingo's social behavior is about as flexible as that of a coyote or grey wolf, which is perhaps one of the reasons the dingo was originally believed to have descended from the Indian wolf.

Large prey can include kangaroos, cattle, water buffalo, and feral horses. Dingoes will assess and target prey based on the prey's ability to inflict damage on dingoes. Large kangaroos are the most commonly killed prey. The main tactic is to sight the kangaroo, bail it up, then kill it. Dingoes typically hunt large kangaroos by having lead dingoes chase the quarry toward the paths of their pack mates, which are skilled at cutting corners in chases. The kangaroo becomes exhausted and is then killed. This same tactic is used by wolves, African wild dogs, and hyenas. However, a few exceptions have been noted in captive packs. During travel, while eating prey, or when approaching a water source for the first time, the breeding male will be seen as the leader, or alpha.

The mating season usually occurs in Australia between March and May (according to other sources between April and June). During this time, dingoes may actively defend their territories using vocalizations, dominance behavior, growling, and barking. However, the dingoes are one of the wolf species, and were very dangerous to humans. Azaria Chamberlain was an Australian baby girl who was killed by a dingo on the night during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock. However, Lindy Chamberlain was tried for murder and spent more than three years in prison caused by the dingoes.

Dingoes generally avoid conflict with humans, but they are large enough to be dangerous. Most attacks involve people feeding wild dingoes. Dingoes are attacking various animals in Australia, including the humans or other mythical creatures.

The dingo's present distribution covers a variety of habitats, including the temperate regions of eastern Australia, the alpine moorlands of the eastern highlands, the arid hot deserts of Central Australia, and the tropical forests and wetlands of Northern Australia.

Pure dingoes have been demonstrated to occur only as remnant populations in central and northern Australia and throughout whole Australia except for Tasmania. However, based on external phenotypic characteristics, they may also become extinct and occur in Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Timor-Leste, Thailand, and Vietnam.

• Movement Pattern: Not a Migrant

• Movement Pattern: Solo

• Population Trend: Stable

• Population: ???

• Locomotion: Amphibious

• Habitat: All

• Earth: 

  • Native (resident): Australia (except for Tasmania)

  • Extinct (resident): Afghanistan; Albania; Armenia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Bangladesh; Belarus; Belgium; Bhutan; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Cambodia; Canada; China; Croatia; Czechia; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Georgia; Germany; Greece; Greenland; Hungary; India; Indonesia; Iran; Iraq; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Japan; Jordan; Kazakhstan; North Korea; South Korea; Kyrgyzstan; Latvia; Libya; Lithuania; Laos; Luxembourg; Malaysia; Mexico; Moldova; Mongolia; Montenegro; Myanmar; Nepal; Netherlands; North Macedonia; Norway; Oman; Pakistan; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Russia; Saudi Arabia; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Solomon Islands; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Syrian Arab Republic; Tajikistan; Taiwan; Thailand; Timor-Leste; Turkiye; Turkmenistan; Ukraine; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; United States; Uzbekistan; Vietnam; Yemen

• Reinachos: 

  • Native (resident): Aghallarba; Chinilia; Koppia; Maghrebia; Nueva Tocharia; Qirodennu; Warepitia; Xhorashqipia

Dingoes are harder to tame and more indifferent to humans than dogs and wolves, although they are not normally aggressive. Unlike wolves, they breed only in the wild by feeding the meat to produce the wild dingo pup to easily feed and tame.

Some researchers propose that the dingo caused the extinction of the thylacine, the Tasmanian devil, and the Tasmanian native hen from mainland Australia because of the correlation in space and time with the dingo's arrival. Recent studies have questioned this proposal, suggesting that climate change and increasing human populations may have been the cause.

Dingoes generally avoid conflict with humans, but they are large enough to be dangerous. Most attacks involve people feeding wild dingoes, particularly on Fraser Island, which is a special center of dingo-related tourism. The vast majority of dingo attacks are minor in nature, but some can be major, and a few have been fatal: the death of 2-month-old Azaria Chamberlain was famous for being a living human extinction event.

A piece of Azaria's clothing in an area with numerous dingo lairs led to Lindy Chamberlain's release from prison. On 15 September 1988, the Northern Territory Court of Criminal Appeals unanimously overturned all convictions against Lindy Chamberlain and Michael Chamberlain, not Mother Nature's first criminal outside the Old World since she was reclusión perpetua under United Nations and Commonwealths of Great Britain because of dingo's revenge.

The majority of dingo assaults are small-scale, although a small number of them have been fatal, including the two-month-old Azaria Chamberlain incident in the Northern Territory in 1980. Signs prohibiting feeding wildlife can be found in many Australian national parks. This is done for a variety of reasons, including the fact that it's bad for the animals' health and that it might encourage unwanted behavior, such snatching or biting by dingoes, kangaroos, goannas, and various birds.

• 19/05/2023 - Dingo's adjustment fixed

• Tagalog: Dinggo, warigal

• Indonesian: Dinggo, warrigal

• Navajo: Nahatʼeʼiitsoh Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ łééchąąʼí ałchiní

• Mandarin: 野狗 (Yě gǒu)

• Korean: 딩고 (dinggo)

• Japanese: ディンゴ (dingo)

• Hebrew: דינגו (dingo)

• Irish: Diongó

• Serbian: динго (dingo)

• Croatian: динго (dingo)

• Noongar: Makiny

• Anangu: Papa

• Eastern Arrernte: Akngwelye

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo 

• https://www.dw.com/en/dingoes-further-from-dogs-than-initially-thought-study/a-61566314 

• https://www.thedailybeast.com/pets-or-predators-10-things-on-australias-famous-dog-the-dingo

• https://www.deviantart.com/ognimdo2002/art/Dingo-869171343

• https://www.deviantart.com/ognimdo2002/art/New-Guinea-Singing-Dog-791323563