dingo

A toddler was savaged by two dingoes and suffered a fractured skull.

Topics explored include the origin and ancestry of the dingo, dingo-human conflict, dingo intelligence, and the personality, behaviour and suitability of dingoes as companion animals.

Aborigines may have preyed on dingoes as in Western Australia where the puppies were regarded as a delicacy, although they were sometimes reared by the Aborigines for hunting (Meagher 1974).

We are also told in a note on the back cover: 'All of Australia's dingoes may be descended from one South-Eastern Asian 'rubbish dog' who arrived over 5,000 years ago.

"No longer will Australia be able to say dingoes are not dangerous and only attack when provoked," Chamberlain said after the coroner s ruling.

No longer will Australia be able to say that dingoes are not dangerous and will only attack if provoked.

Northern Territory Coroner Elizabeth Morris found evidence from the case proved a dingo or dingoes were responsible for 9-week-old Azaria's death and ruled that her death certificate should read "attacked and taken by a dingo".

"It gives me hope that this time Australians will finally be warned and realise that dingoes are dangerous animals," Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton told reporters after the hearing.

Parkhurst is a long time campaigner for the dingoes of Fraser island where the expansion of the tourism industry has reduced hunting areas and food sources for the dogs?