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Nose is used Eye of a dingo is more like
for sniffing that of a wolf than a dog
prey, such as
lizards,
rabbits, or
rodents, or
even fruit
and plants

A sitting dingo

DOMINANT DINGO
THE AUSTRALIAN DOG These young dingoes know which
The dingoes of Australia (above
and right) have been so one is the dominant dog.
successful at living in the wild
that it has only recently been
recognized that they were
originally domestic dogs taken
to Australia by the native
aborigines at least 4,000 years
ago. Dingoes should be
preserved as part of the unique
animal kingdom of Australia
because – except where they
have interbred with European
dogs – they are probably the
only remaining purebred
descendants of prehistoric
domestic dogs.

THE ARISTOCRAT OF DOGS
The dingo, as depicted in
this old engraving, is the
aristocrat of all breeds. It
is the most purebred
dog in the world,
because there are
no other wild
dogs with
which it
can breed.

MOTHER AND BABIES
Like all dogs, the dingo is descended
from the wolf (pp. 22–23). Like the
wolf, the dingo mates once a year and
brings up its young to be social
hunters (pp. 18–19).
Coat is a tawny yellow
with pale underparts
Dingo’s feet are
like a wolf’s – Tail is long and
there is no bushy – sometimes
dewclaw (pp. 6–7) with a white tip
on the hind foot

Feet are white

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