Posted: 6/29/05 at 5:01pm
Animal #13:
The Dingo
The Dingo is Australia's largest Carnivore, and is currently suffering from rather bad press. Ever since Lindy Chamberlain, mother of baby Azaria, appeared on international television crying "a dingo ate my baby" there has been problems for it. (btw, Lindy Chamberlain WAS imprisoned for murder, but was later acquitted, as she should have been).
The only pure blood population of Dingoes in the world live on the World's Largest Sand Island, Fraser Island. However, everytime someone is bitten here (and it's a popular tourist spot) the entire PACK is hunted and culled. Unfortunately, this is continuing, as people insist on feeding the dingoes. The dingoes have become dependant on being handfed, and will become aggressive if not given food.
Another major problem plaguing dingoes are the wild dos in Australia. The dingoes freely breed with them, and this dilutes the purity of their ancestry...
Updated On: 7/5/07 at 05:01 PM
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