Big Desert Dingo

Gday pomgonewalkabout
There may be plenty of dingo"s but not many cats..refer to the pussy willow just out of town.

LTO, I don't think anyone here has called Dingo's dogs, I just said that we heard the animal and it sounded more like a Dingo than a dog.

Having said that I am informed by some experts that it is very unlikely that there are any pure Dingo's left on the mainland. So I guess unless you have a DNA test done, anyone calling a Dingo a Dog or a Dog in the wild a Dingo would be right also...

Dear Blaze
Yes, you probably right about purity of the race - unfortunately.
But you took it wrong way, I didn't accuse you to call a dingoes dogs at all.
It was simply a comment.

What ever you do dont call a Dog or a Dingo a Truck :)

Cheers
Greg

Without claiming to be an expert, 22 years in agricultural pest control has taught me something.

Dog Canis familiaris
Dingo Canis familiaris dingo

This tells me that the dingo is of the dog family and is not an entirely separate species.

Disco.

Hi disco driver
Cane / canis= Italian & Latin word for dog wolf is also from family of canis but it is not a dog.
Word probably come from carne=meat (eater)

The Wolf, Dingo and Domestic Dog (etc) are all (true) Dogs i.e. members of the Subfamily: Caninae, True dogs - Tribe Canini

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canidae

So, If you wished to be pedantic the term "Dog" can be used to describe any member of species listed as True Dogs (see above link). The "correct" term for your pet Fido is actually Domestic Dog - regarded by some academics as a subspecies of the Gray Wolf, and by others as a separate species.

The term canine (and I presume therefore canis etc) comes from the Latin "dentes canini" which is actually a fabricated (not a "real" latin word) translation of Greek anatomical terminology "kynodontes" (dog teeth). The latin word "carne" is different and is related only by association to canine/canis etc.

Cheers
Greg

"Australia's iconic dingo is an Asian dog gone wild. Like many Australians, it arrived by boat, possibly 5000 years ago, and went bush, living for the most part off the land and among Aboriginal communities." Uni of NSW website, and similar from many sources.

Hi
Or it could be other way around. As the scientists were erroneous about some other things in past. They can not be 100% sure, that is only a theory and it can be incorrect........
Dingos have more characteristics of wolf than dogs anyway.
In my view it is unjust to say dingo is a dog.

Dog or wolf?

Dogs started their interaction with man, when wolves first found the friendship to be of mutual benefit, and the so domestic dog began. Some breeds of domestic dogs today still bear a strong resemblance to their wolf ancestors. I have not read of when the canines barked instead of howled. Those dogs in Thailand found to be almost identical to our dingoes may have a common ancestor of an Asian wolf 4 or 5,000 years ago when the first dingoes are thought to have come to Australia.

Wolves will not readily interbreed with dogs, but dingoes will, to the extent that there are not many pure dingoes remaining in the wild. Australia's favourite sheep dog, the kelpie, has a strong dingo ancestry.

Woof woof

Geeez if had any more to drink I would have probably seen a Yeti or a Bunyip.....

Still there is the possibility that the howling was one Des Lexic still trying to get out of the park and probably stuck on a hill somewhere....;-)

Depends what you call "in the wild". In the Simpson Desert they associate vehicles with people and food, they definately run, towards you hoping to find some scrap or offering of food. Definately don't leave any food out on bbq or anything around camp, attracts dingos like flies.
Cheers Peter and Lez