New research suggests dingoes are distinct enough to have their own scientific name. If this is accepted, it will have far-reaching consequences
Articles on Wild dogs
Displaying all articles
New genetic research shows dingoes are not breeding with domestic dogs in the wild. But that could change if lethal control measures continue to decimate populations in Victoria.
There’s been a long-standing debate over whether dingoes started out wild or domesticated. One thing is clear – they had a close relationship with First Peoples.
The bones of the animal were found eroding from the ground. After careful analysis, it will be reburied on Country.
It’s time to reconsider our relationship with the dingo. By collaborating and drawing from both Indigenous and Western knowledge, we can find ways to live in harmony with our apex land predator.
Dingoes are not wild dogs, research reveals. Most of the 307 wild animals sampled in this study were pure dingo. Australia’s apex predator deserves our respect after thousands of years on this land.
African wild dogs are adapting to rising temperatures using a cue that no longer accurately predicts the best conditions for reproduction.
There is a myth that dingoes are extinct and wild dogs are all that remain in Australia. Our results show dingoes in New South Wales persist despite some mixing with domestic dogs.
Of all Australia’s wildlife, one stands out as having an identity crisis: the dingo. New research has found the dingo is its own species, distinct from ‘wild dogs’.
Wild leopards that live in an Indian city park like to dine on stray dogs, which new research says may help reduce the number of potentially deadly dog bites on people.
Cats have a bad reputation as wildlife killers (deservedly so). But dogs aren’t off the hook: new research shows domestic dogs have contributed to the extinction of at least 11 species.
Wild dog attacks on livestock are devastating, but bounties and culling aren’t the answer.
More and more Africans are becoming citizen scientists – and the benefits are huge both for them as individuals and for science on the continent.
Does dingo control harm Australia’s environment? Results from the largest Australian experiment on dingoes – published this week in Frontiers in Zoology – shows the answer to that question is a convincing…
Dingoes are back in the news, with Prime Minister Tony Abbott raising concerns on ABC radio last week about dingoes in drought-hit areas of Queensland and New South Wales: I’d learnt some years ago on…
On a stop-over in Thailand, CSIRO scientist Laurie Corbett noticed some familiar-looking, ginger dogs wandering the streets. This encounter set him thinking about the origins of Australia’s dingoes, a…
The Victorian government has introduced bounties for foxes and wild dogs, $10 for the scalp of a fox, and $50 for that of a dog. Bounties have been tried before, and failed to control these pests, but…
Top contributors
-
Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
-
Research Fellow in Canid and Wildlife Genomics, UNSW
-
Professor, University of Sydney
-
Associate Professor, Global Ecology, University of Sydney
-
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, CQUniversity Australia
-
Peter Fleming is a Friend of The Conversation.
Research Leader, Predator and Prey Management, University of New England
-
Professor Emeritus in Terrestrial Ecology, University of Sydney
-
Associate professor, University of New England
-
Professor, Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, UNSW
-
Future Fellow in Ecology, Queensland University of Technology
-
Research Fellow at the Centre for Planetary Health and Resilient Conservation Group, Griffith University
-
Wildlife ecologist, University of Southern Queensland
-
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Sydney
-
Girringun Aboriginal Corporation Indigenous Protected Areas Coordinator and Acting Executive Officer, Indigenous Knowledge
-
Assistant Professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington