I’m a bit busy this week, so I’m posting pictures I took a few years ago.
These are Australian Dingos. They live at a breeding reserve in Victoria, run by the kind of fellow you’d expect to have made his life’s passion the rescue of pure-bred Dingos.
Dingos arrived in Australia about four thousand years ago. It’s supposed that they were brought as a part of a load of a trade-goods that polynesians bartered with Aboriginal Australians.
Other than man (and native rats and mice), the Dingo was the first placential mammal to enter Australia. One presumes the consequences for the native fauna were nearly as disasterous as when humans first arrived.
But nature adapts, and they now have their place in the Australian bush.