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- noun Plural form of
dingo .
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Examples
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Even in dingos we find that they’ve apparently always been preventing from participating in aboriginal kangaroo hunts because their chasing behaviour made the hunts a failure*.
Controversial origins of the domestic dog Darren Naish 2006
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Even in dingos we find that they’ve apparently always been preventing from participating in aboriginal kangaroo hunts because their chasing behaviour made the hunts a failure*.
Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Devils once inhabited all of Australia, but when Aborigines came to the continent from Papua New Guinea, about 40,000 years ago, the wild dogs called dingos they brought with them killed the devils off.
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There was a threat of these wild dogs called dingos, which once you see them, they are laughable but it meant the girls went on a mini patrol when they wanted to pee!
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Some top predators have been introduced by humans, such as dingos in Australia, while others have taken over after humans have extirpated the ecosystem's natural top predators, such as coyotes in the US after wolves and mountain lions vanished.
Mongabay.com News 2010
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Some top predators have been introduced by humans, such as dingos in Australia, while others have taken over after humans have extirpated the ecosystem's natural top predators, such as coyotes in the US after wolves and mountain lions vanished.
Mongabay.com News 2010
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They were preyed on by the first Australians and by species such as dingos, goannas, snakes, barramundi and groper, which just don't exist in the same numbers.
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Sheep and cattle can be protected from dingos without the need to kill them.
Back Biodiversity 100, save our wildlife George Monbiot 2010
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This has serious impacts for the conservation of other wildlife, as dingos suppress the populations of large numbers of invasive cats and foxes that destroy native fauna.
Back Biodiversity 100, save our wildlife George Monbiot 2010
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We're asking the Australian government to stop dingos from being killed.
Back Biodiversity 100, save our wildlife George Monbiot 2010
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