Dingo

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Dingo

Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Canidae Genus: Canis Species: C. lupus Subspecies: C. l. dingo
Trinomial
Canis lupus dingo

The Dingo or Canis Lupus Dingo is known as Australia’s wild dog and live in the dry plains and out skirting forest of Australia. The theory of where dingoes originated from are a varied perception and they are often known as descendants of domesticated dogs that were brought out to Australia over thousands and thousands of years ago. The dingo’s color usually ginger although they have been black, white, or tan have been what recorded by researchers. [1] Whenever dingo’s come into our lives they have been recognized to teach us something and that something is of our own morality, threat of extinction of ourselves, what we truly care for, that the value of taking risks is whenever we see an opportunity, and to not let life’s circumstances or road bumps stop us from setting our dream free.[2]

1 Anatomy
2 Reproduction
3 Ecology
4 Conservation
5 Gallery
6 Related References
7 See Also

Anatomy

The dingos are a medium sized dog that have short yellowish, orange, kind of tan look to them mixed with really light black and white cream colored fur. It has medium ranged ears that are said to be big, but really aren’t big, but a tad bit smaller than your average German shepherd. When fully grown to adults they have very keen senses and some states theories of Dingo’s have a sixth sense. These dogs can bark, but usually prefer howling over barking unless danger has arisen amidst them. Dingoes are carnivores and eat usually your bigger animals and sometimes travel in packs. [3] Dingo’s are known to be the native dogs of Australia, and being the largest carnivore and are known for their ginger tan coloring, roughly around four percent of dingo’s are black with tan points. [4]

Reproduction

The breeding season is from March to June for Dingo's, while competing for mates against other dingo's, dingo’s will lose up to a third of their body weight. An Alpha male can produce with the reproduction process between him and the female up to a litter of three to six pups about sixty three days after mating. If an inferior female produces a litter, the alpha female will execute the litter so pack efforts can be concentrated on her own puppies. The puppies must rely on their mother for milk and nutrition until they are up to three weeks of age and are still continued to be guarded by the pack like one big happy family. Just like birds in general the puppies will be fed regurgitated solid foods so it is easier for them to digest and prevents them from choking. Males reach sexual maturity at one and half years old and females reach that in two years. The written fact on dingo’s life spans has been documented to three years minimum, five years maximum, and fifteen years is the verification record.[5] Dingo’s breed about once a year and after the conception period of 63 days the female gives birth to two to nine pups; three to five pups are most familiar and the pups are born in a den formed inside a hollow log, enlarged wombat burrow, amid thick vegetation, and especially and usually caves. [6]

Ecology

A Dingo strolling through its naturally habitat slowly, but very aware of its surroundings.

Dingo's are all throughout mainland Australia, occupying a variety of habits including alpine forests, deserts, coastal shrub, and tropical rainforests. The dingo’s usually hunt in packs, but sometimes alone and are nocturnal, which means they are awake at nighttime and sleep during the day. The dingo’s like I stated before in the anatomy are carnivores, which means they eat meat such as rats, kangaroos, wallabies, large mammals of any kind, reptiles, carrion, insects, possums, wombats, pigs goats, birds, rabbits, lizards, and some of the other farm animals. They swallow meat in large chunks without chewing thoroughly.[7] “Its absence from the island state of Tasmania suggests that it did not arrive in Australia until the land bridge joining the island to mainland was flooded by the rising sea level eleven thousand years ago”, an opinion that some people state. The dingo’s are very territorial especially about alpha males and alpha females. The dingo’s have strategy to getting their prey in the way that they hunt alone and form a surrounding group around the prey to kill or attack both of which end with the same results. The hours of dawn and dusk are when the dingo’s are most or still active. [8] The dingo can also be known as an opportunistic feeder, which is the dingo’s diet is whatever’s available at the specific habitat it’s in and is really not particular about its food.[9]

Conservation

The warning sign of the vicous dingo Lake McKenzie, Queensland

On Aug 2004, Environment Minister Bob Debus reintroduced a plan to initiate aerial baiting in the northern end of Koscisuzko National Park to aid in the extinction of the make the Quoll and Dingo.[10] Such talk is reminiscent of actions conducted in Australia in the late 1800s and early 1900s that led to the extinction of the Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine). The Tasmanian government paid £1 a head for the Thylacines (10 shillings for pups). In all they paid out 2,184 bounties, but it is thought that many more Thylacines were killed than were claimed. Its extinction is popularly attributed to these relentless efforts by farmers and bounty hunters.

In response to the plan put forth by Bob Debus, Keith Muir director of the Colong Foundation for wilderness issued a statement saying; "We need carefully thought through wild dog management that protects Dingoes and tiger quolls; not this knee jerk extinction program." "Throwing meat baits laced with one thousand and eighty poisons out of helicopters kills dingoes and threatened Tiger Quolls, as well as wild dogs." "Aerial baiting will also increase the dominance of wild dog-fox-cat regime with populations of dingoes and quolls, and two reasons for the low populations of Quolls in northern Kosciuszko are the recent fires and past pest control efforts that have killed them off." "If you want to make Dingoes and Quolls become extinct in the region, then the Minister's aerial baiting program would be exactly the way to go about it," said Mr. Muir. [11]

Gallery

Dingo taking a nap with the hair color is slightly mixed between orange, white, and light red.	This is the same kind dingo just of slightly lighter color	Two dingo's relaxing in their environment
Dingo on Watch		a dingo awaken by some indistinct sound far far away.