https://www.feralscan.org.au/default.aspx

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Wild dog
Deer
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Fox
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Myna
Toad
Mouse
Feral Goat
Feral Fish
Starling
Other Pests
New Pests

Tau.Neutrino said:

https://www.feralscan.org.au/default.aspx

14 Categories of Pests managed over Maps and Apps

Wild dog
Deer
Rabbitt
Feral Cat
Fox
Feral Pig
Myna
Toad
Mouse
Feral Goat
Feral Fish
Starling
Other Pests
New Pests

Wild Dog in most cases is just another name for Dingo which can legitimately be claimed as an indigenous species. Recent studies have found there is very little domestic dog genes in dingo (wild dog) records and in the main they are true dingo stock. A likely reason for this is domestic dogs are poorly adapted to Australian conditions and cannot survive where the dingo will thrive.

The wild dog description is a sanitised description of the dingo by farming communities and the department of agriculture because there would be less public condemnation of the persecution of this hardy native dog along with its Australian adapted lifestyle.

PermeateFree said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

https://www.feralscan.org.au/default.aspx

14 Categories of Pests managed over Maps and Apps

Wild dog
Deer
Rabbitt
Feral Cat
Fox
Feral Pig
Myna
Toad
Feral Farmers
Mouse
Feral Goat
Feral Fish
Starling
Other Pests
New Pests

Wild Dog in most cases is just another name for Dingo which can legitimately be claimed as an indigenous species. Recent studies have found there is very little domestic dog genes in dingo (wild dog) records and in the main they are true dingo stock. A likely reason for this is domestic dogs are poorly adapted to Australian conditions and cannot survive where the dingo will thrive.

The wild dog description is a sanitised description of the dingo by farming communities and the department of agriculture because there would be less public condemnation of the persecution of this hardy native dog along with its Australian adapted lifestyle.

Interesting.

Peak Warming Man said:

PermeateFree said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

https://www.feralscan.org.au/default.aspx

14 Categories of Pests managed over Maps and Apps

Wild dog
Deer
Rabbitt
Feral Cat
Fox
Feral Pig
Myna
Toad
Feral Farmers
Mouse
Feral Goat
Feral Fish
Starling
Other Pests
New Pests

Wild Dog in most cases is just another name for Dingo which can legitimately be claimed as an indigenous species. Recent studies have found there is very little domestic dog genes in dingo (wild dog) records and in the main they are true dingo stock. A likely reason for this is domestic dogs are poorly adapted to Australian conditions and cannot survive where the dingo will thrive.

The wild dog description is a sanitised description of the dingo by farming communities and the department of agriculture because there would be less public condemnation of the persecution of this hardy native dog along with its Australian adapted lifestyle.

Interesting.

You should see it when you zoom in.

PermeateFree said:

Wild Dog in most cases is just another name for Dingo which can legitimately be claimed as an indigenous species. Recent studies have found there is very little domestic dog genes in dingo (wild dog) records and in the main they are true dingo stock. A likely reason for this is domestic dogs are poorly adapted to Australian conditions and cannot survive where the dingo will thrive.

The wild dog description is a sanitised description of the dingo by farming communities and the department of agriculture because there would be less public condemnation of the persecution of this hardy native dog along with its Australian adapted lifestyle.

That’s sort of the opposite of what I’ve heard.

I’ve heard that very few dingos remain. Almost all wild dogs are descendants of those brought over by Europeans.

By the way, I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned that a full three well known and infamous Australian ferals were deliberately brought here on the First Fleet, listed on the cargo manifest. Four if you include humans.

On the cargo manifest for the First Fleet you can find:

• The dog – the captain’s greyhounds
• The cat – the cats of the Rev Johnson
• The prickly pair – to be planted for food

mollwollfumble said:

PermeateFree said:

Wild Dog in most cases is just another name for Dingo which can legitimately be claimed as an indigenous species. Recent studies have found there is very little domestic dog genes in dingo (wild dog) records and in the main they are true dingo stock. A likely reason for this is domestic dogs are poorly adapted to Australian conditions and cannot survive where the dingo will thrive.

The wild dog description is a sanitised description of the dingo by farming communities and the department of agriculture because there would be less public condemnation of the persecution of this hardy native dog along with its Australian adapted lifestyle.

That’s sort of the opposite of what I’ve heard.

I’ve heard that very few dingos remain. Almost all wild dogs are descendants of those brought over by Europeans.

By the way, I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned that a full three well known and infamous Australian ferals were deliberately brought here on the First Fleet, listed on the cargo manifest. Four if you include humans.

On the cargo manifest for the First Fleet you can find:

• The dog – the captain’s greyhounds
• The cat – the cats of the Rev Johnson
• The prickly pair – to be planted for food
  

The wild dogs (not dingos) in Australia tend to be around towns or built up areas (often neglected domestic dogs) and don’t venture too far from them unless there is plenty of food and water, so generally up the east coast. Dogs without human assistance cannot survive in the dryer and more remote areas, whilst dingos tend to avoid people and largely remain in the more remote regions that make up the vast majority of the continent. What you heard is the common response from farming communities and agricultural departments, but these people also need to be in the better watered and less harsh regions too. Australia is a big country and what happens in one part is often not applicable to another.

Dogs (not) gone wild: DNA tests show most ‘wild dogs’ in Australia are pure dingoes

99 per cent of wild canines in Australia are pure dingoes or dingo-dominant hybrids, but they’re being labelled as ‘wild dogs’.

Almost all wild canines in Australia are genetically more than half dingo, a new study led by UNSW Sydney shows – suggesting that lethal measures to control ‘wild dog’ populations are primarily targeting dingoes.

The study, published today in Australian Mammalogy, collates the results from over 5000 DNA samples of wild canines across the country, making it the largest and most comprehensive dingo data set to date.

The team found that 99 per cent of wild canines tested were pure dingoes or dingo-dominant hybrids (that is, a hybrid canine with more than 50 per cent dingo genes).

Of the remaining one per cent, roughly half were dog-dominant hybrids and the other half feral dogs.

“We don’t have a feral dog problem in Australia,” says Dr Kylie Cairns, a conservation biologist from UNSW Science and lead author of the study. “They just aren’t established in the wild.

“There are rare times when a dog might go bush, but it isn’t contributing significantly to the dingo population.”

Pure dingoes with colourful coats are often mistaken for feral dogs.

The study builds on a 2019 paper by the team that found most wild canines in NSW are pure dingoes or dingo-dominant hybrids. The newer paper looked at DNA samples from past studies across Australia, including more than 600 previously unpublished data samples.

Pure dingoes – dingoes with no detectable dog ancestry – made up 64 per cent of the wild canines tested, while an additional 20 per cent were at least three-quarters dingo.

The findings challenge the view that pure dingoes are virtually extinct in the wild – and call to question the widespread use of the term ‘wild dog’.

“‘Wild dog’ isn’t a scientific term – it’s a euphemism,” says Dr Cairns.

“Dingoes are a native Australian animal, and many people don’t like the idea of using lethal control on native animals.

“The term ‘wild dog’ is often used in government legislation when talking about lethal control of dingo populations.”

The terminology used to refer to a species can influence our underlying attitudes about them, especially when it comes to native and culturally significant animals.

This language can contribute to other misunderstandings about dingoes, like being able to judge a dingo’s ancestry by the colour of its coat – which can naturally be sandy, black, white, brindle, tan, patchy, or black and tan.

“There is an urgent need to stop using the term ‘wild dog’ and go back to calling them dingoes,” says Mr Brad Nesbitt, an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of New England and a co-author on the study.

“Only then can we have an open public discussion about finding a balance between dingo control and dingo conservation in the Australian bush.”

The median ancestry of wild canine DNA samples across Australia.

A black and tan coloured dingo

More:
https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/dogs-not-gone-wild-dna-tests-show-most-wild-dogs-australia-are-pure-dingoes

Research: UNSW

PermeateFree said:

mollwollfumble said:

PermeateFree said:

Wild Dog in most cases is just another name for Dingo which can legitimately be claimed as an indigenous species. Recent studies have found there is very little domestic dog genes in dingo (wild dog) records and in the main they are true dingo stock. A likely reason for this is domestic dogs are poorly adapted to Australian conditions and cannot survive where the dingo will thrive.

The wild dog description is a sanitised description of the dingo by farming communities and the department of agriculture because there would be less public condemnation of the persecution of this hardy native dog along with its Australian adapted lifestyle.

That’s sort of the opposite of what I’ve heard.

I’ve heard that very few dingos remain. Almost all wild dogs are descendants of those brought over by Europeans.

By the way, I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned that a full three well known and infamous Australian ferals were deliberately brought here on the First Fleet, listed on the cargo manifest. Four if you include humans.

On the cargo manifest for the First Fleet you can find:

• The dog – the captain’s greyhounds
• The cat – the cats of the Rev Johnson
• The prickly pair – to be planted for food
  

The wild dogs (not dingos) in Australia tend to be around towns or built up areas (often neglected domestic dogs) and don’t venture too far from them unless there is plenty of food and water, so generally up the east coast. Dogs without human assistance cannot survive in the dryer and more remote areas, whilst dingos tend to avoid people and largely remain in the more remote regions that make up the vast majority of the continent. What you heard is the common response from farming communities and agricultural departments, but these people also need to be in the better watered and less harsh regions too. Australia is a big country and what happens in one part is often not applicable to another.

Wild dogs are wild dogs. When did they ever call wolves wild dogs?
This is a bit like the Israelis treating the Palestinians like willd dogs and whine when they bite back.
The indigenes have been here longer than the dingo but when they are raped by the occupiers, do we call the resulting children wild humans?

mollwollfumble said:

PermeateFree said:

Wild Dog in most cases is just another name for Dingo which can legitimately be claimed as an indigenous species. Recent studies have found there is very little domestic dog genes in dingo (wild dog) records and in the main they are true dingo stock. A likely reason for this is domestic dogs are poorly adapted to Australian conditions and cannot survive where the dingo will thrive.

The wild dog description is a sanitised description of the dingo by farming communities and the department of agriculture because there would be less public condemnation of the persecution of this hardy native dog along with its Australian adapted lifestyle.

That’s sort of the opposite of what I’ve heard.

I’ve heard that very few dingos remain. Almost all wild dogs are descendants of those brought over by Europeans.

By the way, I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned that a full three well known and infamous Australian ferals were deliberately brought here on the First Fleet, listed on the cargo manifest. Four if you include humans.

On the cargo manifest for the First Fleet you can find:

• The dog – the captain’s greyhounds
• The cat – the cats of the Rev Johnson
• The prickly pair – to be planted for food
  

So you don’t believe that rodents were hopping off the ship at the same time?
They also brought food animals as they were called. These animals, also brought hitchikers. Same as the bales of hay and other foods they brought to keep the food animals alive.
They all ran Wild ~ Eric Rolls, wrote of all the stuff that we brought in and allowed to take off like weeds.

roughbarked said:

mollwollfumble said:

PermeateFree said:

Wild Dog in most cases is just another name for Dingo which can legitimately be claimed as an indigenous species. Recent studies have found there is very little domestic dog genes in dingo (wild dog) records and in the main they are true dingo stock. A likely reason for this is domestic dogs are poorly adapted to Australian conditions and cannot survive where the dingo will thrive.

The wild dog description is a sanitised description of the dingo by farming communities and the department of agriculture because there would be less public condemnation of the persecution of this hardy native dog along with its Australian adapted lifestyle.

That’s sort of the opposite of what I’ve heard.

I’ve heard that very few dingos remain. Almost all wild dogs are descendants of those brought over by Europeans.

By the way, I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned that a full three well known and infamous Australian ferals were deliberately brought here on the First Fleet, listed on the cargo manifest. Four if you include humans.

On the cargo manifest for the First Fleet you can find:

• The dog – the captain’s greyhounds
• The cat – the cats of the Rev Johnson
• The prickly pair – to be planted for food
  

So you don’t believe that rodents were hopping off the ship at the same time?
They also brought food animals as they were called. These animals, also brought hitchikers. Same as the bales of hay and other foods they brought to keep the food animals alive.
They all ran Wild ~ Eric Rolls, wrote of all the stuff that we brought in and allowed to take off like weeds.

> So you don’t believe that rodents were hopping off the ship at the same time?

I don’t know, they weren’t on the cargo manifest.

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

mollwollfumble said:

That’s sort of the opposite of what I’ve heard.

I’ve heard that very few dingos remain. Almost all wild dogs are descendants of those brought over by Europeans.

By the way, I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned that a full three well known and infamous Australian ferals were deliberately brought here on the First Fleet, listed on the cargo manifest. Four if you include humans.

On the cargo manifest for the First Fleet you can find:

• The dog – the captain’s greyhounds
• The cat – the cats of the Rev Johnson
• The prickly pair – to be planted for food
  

So you don’t believe that rodents were hopping off the ship at the same time?
They also brought food animals as they were called. These animals, also brought hitchikers. Same as the bales of hay and other foods they brought to keep the food animals alive.
They all ran Wild ~ Eric Rolls, wrote of all the stuff that we brought in and allowed to take off like weeds.

> So you don’t believe that rodents were hopping off the ship at the same time?

I don’t know, they weren’t on the cargo manifest.

https://education.abc.net.au/newsandarticles/blog/-/b/3286388/curious-kids-where-did-rats-first-come-from-