Australian Wild Dog Dingo
A Dingo is a wild dog that is native to Australia. It is also known as a Warrigal and is very troublesome for Australia’s sheep farmers. In fact, the Dingo fence was installed in the late 1800’s throughout central Queensland to protect livestock from this native dog. The fence is 5,531 km long and 1.8m high and is the world’s longest continuous fence. The Dingo is one of the largest land predators in Australia. Although the Dingo is viewed as a pest by livestock farmers, they are actually classified as vulnerable, as their numbers have continuously declined. Dingos were thought to have been brought to Australia from Southeast Asia, but modern day Dingos have bred with domestic dogs and today most Dingos are actually a Dingo hybrid.
