👋 A clarification on 00:55 - Wild dingoes and your pet ‘blue heeler’ are different - particularly in behaviour - but their genetics are much closer than we indicate here. Since European contact dingoes have crossbred with other dog breeds to form hybrids and some historical reports suggests the Aussie blue heeler might actually be one of them. If we take a look at the dingo ‘family tree’, genomic studies have revealed their origins can be traced to ancient breeds of domesticated dogs in Asia. They are much closer to domestic dogs than wolves genetically speaking. But as they’re largely free-living animals, don’t expect dingoes to behave like your typical canine companion.
@@gregmcb5305 My understanding is that the geneome sequencing for all dogs and wolves is incomplete. That is: there are significant gaps between various connections eg the grey wolf and the domestic dog> Which particular type of grey wlf gave rise to the domestic dog? Is that particular greay wolf extinct? The dingo is the same. I'm sorry: I find the conclusions you draw are only speculations...
There is a case where dingos actually did carry off a baby. The mom insisted that dingos took her baby but law enforcement accused her instead. The mom was convicted, served prison time and afterward a hiker discovered a baby blanket in a dingo den. It matched the missing baby's blanket. Further investigation showed that dingos had taken the baby.
@@michaelfrost4584 it's not only Police who don't believe a Dingo did it, I don't. I didn't believe it back then, and there is no new evidence that leads me to believe it now.
I always thought the dingo eating a baby thing was an urban legend, but apparently a dingo really did eat a baby. And then the parents were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for murder. That's heartbreaking! I mean, it's not the dingo's fault. They were camping in a remote area. It's not the parent's fault either, though. I mean, who would expect that to ever happen? Apparently, the dingo went inside the tent and got the baby. Damn, that's tragic. :( If a wild animal ate my baby and then I was wrongfully imprisoned, I would have a whole entire nervous breakdown.
They where absolved from the from of murdering the baby, when a few yrs later another baby was taken by a dingo. Then they searched the first couples area where they had been camping and found the child's clothing in the brush.
I had a dingo in the 90s his name was stub (his old owner cut his tail off and he had a stub....so stub) He was the most protective/smartest dog I've ever had....when my brother was a toddler there was 2 dogs on the other side of the fence in the neighbors yard and he nudged my little brother away from the other dogs and would walk with him to make sure he didn't get too close to the fence.... I love dingos Rest in peace Stub
@@FeelItRising right lol Plus it was one of the most successful sitcoms. Not sure why some Aussies get so defensive when it comes to that, considering it was their own government who made an absolute spectacle outta the Chamberlain case. They’re the ones who acted like it was impossible for a dingo to eat a baby, so the rest of the world just followed suit 😬
That dingo opening the gate reminds me of our last dog, Rocky, who was -- we were told -- a GSD x Kelpie, but he had the same colouring and similar shape as a dingo. He'd open our back sliding door with no real difficulties...he'd hop up on his back legs, lift the lock with his nose, and then use his snout to push the heavy door across. It was very handy because we didn't have to get up and let him out all the time but it would also get annoying, especially in winter, lol.
i got in to a fight with a man in thailand. I confiscated a pup that was being used as bait. i gave the pup to my 4yo daughter, he would protect my daughter and my cat with his life! He was very different to domesticated dogs but so was the cat that would go into the water to catch fish like big fish
@andrewmunz1639 Well, dingoes originated in SE Asia, so it's hardly surprising. Thailand's 'soi dogs' look and act very much like dingoes. They're not to be 'trusted' at all.
I would probably say that a dingo is sort of roughly the size of something like a coyote and while it's not they're not that dangerous by themselves because of there limited size they can be sometimes be aggressive and they do attack in packs they are not something which actually kills a lot of people.A common domestic dog particularly if its fairly large is definitely far more likely to kill somebody then what dingos are.
Apparently, Dingo's shoulders are narrower than their heads, unlike most canines. So if a Dingo's head fits through a gap.. the whole animal most likely can.
@@pattymo698 as far I know, coyotes haul across the American border with Mexico, undocumented people that will be used in large scale as hard workers necessary to the well-being of Americans
My first dog was a Dingo-Spitz hybrid. A friend of the family was a captain of a freighter. He took her on board the ship with him but it didn't work out. We adopted her but NYC was no place for a Dingo mix. Skippy was always high-strung and very protective of the family, but aggressive with everyone else. Skip really behaved more Dingo-like than dog. She wound up biting too many visitors and had to be euthanized at age 10. Poor Skippy, she should have never been taken from her true home. She would have been much better served if she'd be allowed to stay in the Outback.
There’s a relative of them in North America that came over with the natives from Asia called the American Dingo. I recently adopted one that was wild in North Carolina. Really cool pup, but probably not for everyone.
9 years old (1988) - family bought a piece of acreage - 3 acres - dryish forested land near Tambourine Mountain near the Gold Coast Australia. No house - but we'd go down and spend the weekend camping. One day - a strange small dogo came to visit. It actually looked just like a dingo - but it was friendly. We kept it and took it back to Brisbane. He became my best friend. We'd go everywhere together. After a year or so - He became a bit aggressive to people he didn't know - nipping at strangers - and my parents had to get rid of him (which REALLY upset me at the time).
i have one. I love him. Hes settled down in his older age..he was dangerous. He can bend his wrist in a circle. Hips touch his above his spin..its crazy..he can hold i to you like a person.
man.. when i was 14 we went bushwalking for our health class and there were dingo howls all around at night. we kept being told they were far off but it was still so scary to hear!!
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They also have beautiful soft fur and their reflexes are incredibly quick. When working at Canberra Zoo I had the honour of walking them for their daily exercise. I blinked and the Dingo I was walking snatched a goose that was roaming freely and they wandered too close. It released it soon after but not without humiliating me in front of many ppl. Hold their leash firmly if you walk them!
So, I've seen some Ann Jones videos before: really enjoyable. That said, two things Jones says in this video are questionable: 1) Dingoes are the only canines that can look over their shoulder. I haven't studied wolves, but I've raised a LOT of dogs, and...even the latest one currently looks over his shoulder at me -- usually when looking out a window, I talk too much about him. He has a "look of reproval" that is devastating. 2). I've ALSO seen a lot of my dogs use "tools" -- without persusasion -- but always for fun and games. The current, "look of reproval", dog likes to pick up one toy so that he can bat (or kind of play golf with) another toy, usually a ball. He also uses tools to play games: he uses a blanket to play hide and seek with himself, when we are too busy, "hiding" the ball and then uncovering it. I suppose it one is hindered by "bloke society" definitions and thinking (tools are ONLY for work or "problem solving") THEN one might think Ann Jones is correct. But she isn't.
Clearly your dogs are 'freaks of nature' that should be turned over to professionals for scientific (ie impartial and reliable) examination and assessment.
2:30 actually, I have witnessed spontaneous tool use with my domesticated dogs many times, especially with my last dog who was a brilliant escape artist and was very good at problem solving. The dog behaviourist didn't believe me until they saw it for themselves.
There are many dog breeds that can look over their own shoulder, Norwegian Lundehound can look backwards in a vertical plane, like tilt your head upwards so much that you can sorta look backwards.
Just watched again a few of your videos and it seems you have as warped a sense of humour as mine. Love watching your expressions. Wish I could meet you but Aus is a long way from UK. Keep 'em coming.
I'm super fascinated with the Common Tree Snake (Dendrelaphis punctulatus) ... How the blinking-heck do they climb a vertical brick wall. Also they are sometimes BLUE!!!
… the more I find out that these things aren’t even og Aussie animals, contributed to making Tasmanian Devils extinct on the main continent and contributed to the extinction of the Tasmanian Tiger and how they just get a pass because they’ve been here long enough and replaced the niches they stole from the more I think that they are just the most uncool Australian animals.
I had a Dingo named Sarge that I got as a puppy. Never barked. Smartest, most loving, loyal canine in the world. Loved kids, and my cat. I miss him so. That was about 40 years ago. Would get another in a heartbeat
"The difference between prey and play is nothing." -- who wrote this? It's true that play for carnivores can include behaviours that would harm a person -- but that doesn't make predation and play identical, or even similar, behavioral systems
Dingos are not Australian wild dogs. They're dingos. In fact 2 whole weeks before you decided to publish this, the CSIRO journal Australian Mammalogy published a study that pushed that very point and demonstrated it through the largest genetic survey of wild canids in Australian history. Some 5039 samples. Dingos are dingos, not wild dogs. They share a common ancestor with grey wolfs from the Pleistocene but aren't descent nor a subspecies. They're more like a cousin. Dingo populations do not breed that regularly with wild dogs. The majority are 100% pure dingo. They're more likely to out complete or outright attack wild dogs (and thus naturally keeping their numbers down, less than 1% of all wild canids) than they are to breed with them.. Play and prey are not thin walls. What kind of unscientific nonsense is that statement. Just because rough housing can lead to injury doesn't mean you're being hunted. Please stop spreading misinformation ABC Science, you should know better. Instead of getting a presenter to read a script filled with nonsense, interview people who actually know what they're talking about.
My dog once pushed a chair across my family's kitchen to access the counter and eat 4 dozen Christmas cookies my mom made while we were out. Ill never forget that.
The caparison of bites vs mauling was nice to hear. I have had run ins with domestic dogs who have turned feral in my neighborhood and I can say this I would rather a curious dingo coming up to investigate me then a pack of former pets cornering me against a the side of a truck looking to full on attack me (which I have had the latter happen)
i have a “domestic” dog pack that occasionally has a pack mentality and, when they get to fighting, i have to get in and brake them up. i don’t go to the doctor for my injuries though i do take the dogs that need it to the vet. i am trying to rehome one of them but, i haven’t found anyone to take her that is trustworthy. i have changed the routine of the one who is always whooped and keep her with me so she is never alone with the rest of the pack. that has pretty much stopped all of the fighting. the last fight, i got bit very badly on the left wrist. had someone wrap it for me and headed to the vet with a severely wounded Streak. She had to stay there for a week. i think i could easily play within a pack of dingoes and keep the alpha position.
So my sister adopted a dog during 2020 and when they did a DNA test they found out he’s a Carolina dog. According to the website the Carolina dog is basically the American equivalent of a dingo. However, while the dingo cannot be domesticated, the Carolina Dog *can* be domesticated but is also just fine being feral.
Wait, what was the tool the dingo used to get out? It's mouth? Honestly asking. My family has had a lot of german shepherds and a couple of em over the years were extremely smart! My mom had to start using padlocks on the dog run & kennel bc one of em learned to open ever other type of latch/locking mechanism we tried, crazy smart dog! Then I had an unrelated GS in a different household when I became an adult, this dog would literally watch our every move to figure out how the gates, etc worked and as soon as we turn our back she'd go try to mimic what we'd done, 9/10x successfully I sure do miss those pups!
raised 3 dingoes over my time, the most recent was as pure as they come these days, were all dna tested. Biggest problem is their constant love and devotion to the pack ,of which YOU need to be dominant 24/7. Like training a cat, bloody useless. But just like my camels, once you bond it becomes the focus of your life.
Lol...Stealing the tea. My dingo is obsessed with drinking tea. I cannot leave a cup tea around as she will drink it and pull the tab of the tea bag and eat the teabag. When I buy sugar, she watches where I store the sugar bag lol.... She will not touch a cup of coffee but there is something in tea she loves.
had a 70% cross as probably my first dog was smart fast active and friendly to me my friends and most animals, but was also fast active and hostile to anyone creeping about aggressive to me or in anyway threatening to him. Wild dingo generally shy and no threat. but are intelligent and curious, you shouldnt feed wild ones can be friendly even when wild but they arnt, they are cunning will take an opportunity from you if it works for them or against you, anything they can get away with they will. they arnt overly big, dont have overly sized teeth but they are strong fast and those teeth are pin point sharp, also even if you see one or maybe even two you can be sure there are at least a few more watching
I use to raise Red/Blue Heelers cross,,, the absolute best. And crossing them the pups were all much larger than their parents. Super smart...great companions. NOT dangerous at all. One thing I have noticed in all of the video's on Dingoes is the failure to mention the strength of their jaws, the exaggerated jaw muscles. Mine were able to easily crush a tennis ball flat and break a stick about an inch or more in diameter easily.
Dogs of any breed can be dangerous :) There used to be a blue heeler in the next street that was allowed to roam. I walked down the sunny side of the street and it was laying there. It heard me, got up and growled at me. I 'bigged' myself up and tried to intimidate it and it just growled some more and slowly walked towards me, hunched up ready to attack. This was in the days before you could ring up the council and make a complaint. Years later I also had a German Shepherd do the same thing to me, and the council sent a Dog Control person out. I had a working line GSD myself at the time so I wasn't being paranoid about a 'nasty German Shepherd' I just wanted the council to come and get it and stop giving GSD's a bad name. p.s., my GSD took two, maybe three bites to destroy a tennis ball.
As with any animal, there are no bad ones, just bad owners. My Dingo,Sarge. Loved children, my cat, nose touching buddy with our local beaver. One of the smartest canines I ever had the pleasure to have. Would have another in a heartbeat.
Probably not deadly but an important part in our ecological diversity is the Antechinus aka the marsupial mice! I sometime see these on my property in SE QLD and they're rare as! Never one to bait but capture and release. They love my goat food and I've captured a few interactions on cctv
Does Dr. Ann Jones have social media accounts? Like instagram perhaps? I'm currently a freshwoman studying BS Environmental Science and I find her explaining really soothing and it makes me excited more in my field! I'm new to this channel and I'm already aspiring to be like her. I want to follow her!
It's probably not appropriate to directly compare numbers of injuries from domestic dogs and dingoes to prove the risk from dingoes is lower, because that comparison ignored the chance of encounter.
Hello Anne not dingo related but do you know what to feed a baby yellow throated minor bird resuce it from seagull has taken bit of water n Weetabix seems happy enough thanks for any help , dingo cross breed's are the pests that need caution Jeff
We have one that sleeps on our bed with the cat , very emotional animals and pick up on the emotional state of those around them and can be territorial
“The earliest known dingo fossil, found in Western Australia, dates to 3,450 years ago. However, genomic analysis indicates that the dingo reached Australia 8,300 years ago but the human population which brought them remains unknown.” - Wikipedia
Here in Texas, a pack of Feral Dogs and Coyote killed and consumed an Arab Horse in a single night. By morning all that was left was her skeleton and a 100 foot diameter circle of blood which took place just a couple hundred feet from my home. I now have Donkeys to stand guard over the Horses and kill Dogs and Coyote.
👋 A clarification on 00:55 - Wild dingoes and your pet ‘blue heeler’ are different - particularly in behaviour - but their genetics are much closer than we indicate here. Since European contact dingoes have crossbred with other dog breeds to form hybrids and some historical reports suggests the Aussie blue heeler might actually be one of them.
If we take a look at the dingo ‘family tree’, genomic studies have revealed their origins can be traced to ancient breeds of domesticated dogs in Asia. They are much closer to domestic dogs than wolves genetically speaking. But as they’re largely free-living animals, don’t expect dingoes to behave like your typical canine companion.
My family have a bingo but he is 12 or 15 years old
Awesome video! I've been binge watching them the last few days and i love your vids! Very informative!
Unless you’re in invasive wild feral cat you’ve got nothing to worry about with dingoes
@@gregmcb5305 My understanding is that the geneome sequencing for all dogs and wolves is incomplete. That is: there are significant gaps between various connections eg the grey wolf and the domestic dog> Which particular type of grey wlf gave rise to the domestic dog? Is that particular greay wolf extinct? The dingo is the same. I'm sorry: I find the conclusions you draw are only speculations...
What about the red heeler?
There is a case where dingos actually did carry off a baby. The mom insisted that dingos took her baby but law enforcement accused her instead. The mom was convicted, served prison time and afterward a hiker discovered a baby blanket in a dingo den. It matched the missing baby's blanket. Further investigation showed that dingos had taken the baby.
Thankfully, the Chamberlain-Creightons were absolved after that official revelation.
And yet there are still some cops still think the mother killed the poor baby.
@@michaelfrost4584 it's not only Police who don't believe a Dingo did it, I don't. I didn't believe it back then, and there is no new evidence that leads me to believe it now.
All australians know
How tragic! 😢
I always thought the dingo eating a baby thing was an urban legend, but apparently a dingo really did eat a baby. And then the parents were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for murder. That's heartbreaking! I mean, it's not the dingo's fault. They were camping in a remote area. It's not the parent's fault either, though. I mean, who would expect that to ever happen? Apparently, the dingo went inside the tent and got the baby. Damn, that's tragic. :( If a wild animal ate my baby and then I was wrongfully imprisoned, I would have a whole entire nervous breakdown.
They where absolved from the from of murdering the baby, when a few yrs later another baby was taken by a dingo. Then they searched the first couples area where they had been camping and found the child's clothing in the brush.
Azaria Chamberlain
Wild how one death led to a nationwide genocide campaign against all dingoes
Lindey Chamberlain yeah
Yes that is true I think its discusting that a stupid sitcom could make fun of that idiot's
I had a dingo in the 90s his name was stub (his old owner cut his tail off and he had a stub....so stub)
He was the most protective/smartest dog I've ever had....when my brother was a toddler there was 2 dogs on the other side of the fence in the neighbors yard and he nudged my little brother away from the other dogs and would walk with him to make sure he didn't get too close to the fence....
I love dingos
Rest in peace Stub
so cool!
In some areas of Australia, you can legally own a dingo and in some other areas, no.
"They're nowhere near as deadly as bad acting" 😁 Dr Ann definitely needs her tv show
Ann was right about that. lol
brilliant line!
@@seanziegler477 brilliant indeed
multiple award winning, fantastic actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus
@@FeelItRising right lol Plus it was one of the most successful sitcoms. Not sure why some Aussies get so defensive when it comes to that, considering it was their own government who made an absolute spectacle outta the Chamberlain case. They’re the ones who acted like it was impossible for a dingo to eat a baby, so the rest of the world just followed suit 😬
That dingo opening the gate reminds me of our last dog, Rocky, who was -- we were told -- a GSD x Kelpie, but he had the same colouring and similar shape as a dingo. He'd open our back sliding door with no real difficulties...he'd hop up on his back legs, lift the lock with his nose, and then use his snout to push the heavy door across. It was very handy because we didn't have to get up and let him out all the time but it would also get annoying, especially in winter, lol.
Our dogs open doors often but they _never_ close them !
i got in to a fight with a man in thailand. I confiscated a pup that was being used as bait. i gave the pup to my 4yo daughter, he would protect my daughter and my cat with his life! He was very different to domesticated dogs but so was the cat that would go into the water to catch fish like big fish
Was it a dingo pup?
What does that have to do with dingoes?
And that's relevant because ... ?! 🤔
Dingos are dogs! And very close to the Thailand wild dogs!
@andrewmunz1639
Well, dingoes originated in SE Asia, so it's hardly surprising.
Thailand's 'soi dogs' look and act very much like dingoes.
They're not to be 'trusted' at all.
I would probably say that a dingo is sort of roughly the size of something like a coyote and while it's not they're not that dangerous by themselves because of there limited size they can be sometimes be aggressive and they do attack in packs they are not something which actually kills a lot of people.A common domestic dog particularly if its fairly large is definitely far more likely to kill somebody then what dingos are.
True but coyotes have a much weaker jaw. And smaller teeth
Apparently, Dingo's shoulders are narrower than their heads, unlike most canines.
So if a Dingo's head fits through a gap.. the whole animal most likely can.
Best narrator! So funny and at the same time educational...thanks all the way from Denmark 😎🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰💥
it's always fascinating to me, that wolves are famous for howling, but they aren't the only wild canine that howls
Coyotes howl and so does my teacup poodle.
@@pattymo698 most dogs will if you start howling.
All true dogs howl
@@pattymo698 as far I know, coyotes haul across the American border with Mexico, undocumented people that will be used in large scale as hard workers necessary to the well-being of Americans
My neighbor's Afghan hound howls mournfully every night.
Prehistoric man sees curious wild dog: Heeey buddy
Modern man: Oh my god a savage beast
Prehistoric man saw wolves,the "dogs" we see are their descendents.
I've seen people hesitate to eat fruit from a tree, even if they had eaten it many times from a store lol
Wolves 10000 years ago: "Maybe those weird bipedal ape things have food. What's the worst that could happen?"
Today: Pomeranians
My first dog was a Dingo-Spitz hybrid. A friend of the family was a captain of a freighter. He took her on board the ship with him but it didn't work out. We adopted her but NYC was no place for a Dingo mix. Skippy was always high-strung and very protective of the family, but aggressive with everyone else. Skip really behaved more Dingo-like than dog. She wound up biting too many visitors and had to be euthanized at age 10. Poor Skippy, she should have never been taken from her true home. She would have been much better served if she'd be allowed to stay in the Outback.
Humans are deadlier.
Yes ;)
Definitely. More than any animal imaginable
And deadliest to each other.
You could say that about any living thing lol 😆
My birth grandfather had a dingo in the US named Albert. Very friendly guy to his people but definitely not one to mess with.
There’s a relative of them in North America that came over with the natives from Asia called the American Dingo. I recently adopted one that was wild in North Carolina. Really cool pup, but probably not for everyone.
My cats ears all perked up at the Dingo howling. I'm not so sure they accept apologies though, they are cats after all.
I have a pet dingo, and she is a timid baby who loves other animals and people, trained her to lay down for belly rubs, they are so intelligent
I have a 15 year old dingo that is loved by everyone. She is our special baby.
My experience with mine also. They are the best.
9 years old (1988) - family bought a piece of acreage - 3 acres - dryish forested land near Tambourine Mountain near the Gold Coast Australia. No house - but we'd go down and spend the weekend camping. One day - a strange small dogo came to visit. It actually looked just like a dingo - but it was friendly. We kept it and took it back to Brisbane. He became my best friend. We'd go everywhere together.
After a year or so - He became a bit aggressive to people he didn't know - nipping at strangers - and my parents had to get rid of him (which REALLY upset me at the time).
i have one. I love him. Hes settled down in his older age..he was dangerous. He can bend his wrist in a circle. Hips touch his above his spin..its crazy..he can hold i to you like a person.
man.. when i was 14 we went bushwalking for our health class and there were dingo howls all around at night. we kept being told they were far off but it was still so scary to hear!!
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Haha
Omg I feel attacked.
Please do How deadly on polar bears!!!
Hi, Dr. Ann!! I am happily binge-watching all of your videos!!!! Love yer guts!!💗❤️💕
Thanks Anne, looking forward to the docco tonight!
They also have beautiful soft fur and their reflexes are incredibly quick. When working at Canberra Zoo I had the honour of walking them for their daily exercise. I blinked and the Dingo I was walking snatched a goose that was roaming freely and they wandered too close. It released it soon after but not without humiliating me in front of many ppl. Hold their leash firmly if you walk them!
So, I've seen some Ann Jones videos before: really enjoyable. That said, two things Jones says in this video are questionable: 1) Dingoes are the only canines that can look over their shoulder. I haven't studied wolves, but I've raised a LOT of dogs, and...even the latest one currently looks over his shoulder at me -- usually when looking out a window, I talk too much about him. He has a "look of reproval" that is devastating. 2). I've ALSO seen a lot of my dogs use "tools" -- without persusasion -- but always for fun and games. The current, "look of reproval", dog likes to pick up one toy so that he can bat (or kind of play golf with) another toy, usually a ball. He also uses tools to play games: he uses a blanket to play hide and seek with himself, when we are too busy, "hiding" the ball and then uncovering it. I suppose it one is hindered by "bloke society" definitions and thinking (tools are ONLY for work or "problem solving") THEN one might think Ann Jones is correct. But she isn't.
Ann didn't really do the dingoes head twisting justice. A dingo could put its 'chin' on its spine. Have a look at this at 2:06 into the vid.
Tool use does have a different definition from playing with toys, sweetie
Clearly your dogs are 'freaks of nature' that should be turned over to professionals for scientific (ie impartial and reliable) examination and assessment.
Dr Jones cracks me up with her reactions.
You are a very Intelligent and Timely Journalist❤❤❤❤👍
Hi Dr Ann love the content how about the cassowary they are dangerous. I live in Tasmania how about some content from here please.
Nice suggestion Doug! We should do a Tassie episode.
2:30 actually, I have witnessed spontaneous tool use with my domesticated dogs many times, especially with my last dog who was a brilliant escape artist and was very good at problem solving. The dog behaviourist didn't believe me until they saw it for themselves.
There are many dog breeds that can look over their own shoulder, Norwegian Lundehound can look backwards in a vertical plane, like tilt your head upwards so much that you can sorta look backwards.
That's not really the same thing, now is it?! 🤔
Just watched again a few of your videos and it seems you have as warped a sense of humour as mine. Love watching your expressions. Wish I could meet you but Aus is a long way from UK. Keep 'em coming.
you deserve more followers this show is great and i enjoy it very much so does my daughter very educational appreciate the amazing content
Dingo's are so beautiful to me.. Cannot wait until this Pandemic is over to come visit!
I'm super fascinated with the Common Tree Snake (Dendrelaphis punctulatus) ... How the blinking-heck do they climb a vertical brick wall. Also they are sometimes BLUE!!!
Ohhh. Good suggestion!
… the more I find out that these things aren’t even og Aussie animals, contributed to making Tasmanian Devils extinct on the main continent and contributed to the extinction of the Tasmanian Tiger and how they just get a pass because they’ve been here long enough and replaced the niches they stole from the more I think that they are just the most uncool Australian animals.
I had a Dingo named Sarge that I got as a puppy. Never barked. Smartest, most loving, loyal canine in the world. Loved kids, and my cat. I miss him so. That was about 40 years ago. Would get another in a heartbeat
"The difference between prey and play is nothing." -- who wrote this? It's true that play for carnivores can include behaviours that would harm a person -- but that doesn't make predation and play identical, or even similar, behavioral systems
Dingos are not Australian wild dogs. They're dingos. In fact 2 whole weeks before you decided to publish this, the CSIRO journal Australian Mammalogy published a study that pushed that very point and demonstrated it through the largest genetic survey of wild canids in Australian history. Some 5039 samples. Dingos are dingos, not wild dogs.
They share a common ancestor with grey wolfs from the Pleistocene but aren't descent nor a subspecies. They're more like a cousin.
Dingo populations do not breed that regularly with wild dogs. The majority are 100% pure dingo. They're more likely to out complete or outright attack wild dogs (and thus naturally keeping their numbers down, less than 1% of all wild canids) than they are to breed with them..
Play and prey are not thin walls. What kind of unscientific nonsense is that statement. Just because rough housing can lead to injury doesn't mean you're being hunted.
Please stop spreading misinformation ABC Science, you should know better. Instead of getting a presenter to read a script filled with nonsense, interview people who actually know what they're talking about.
I love that she reacts to her own video!
Ann was certainly surprised by that. Thanks for watching Eric!
I've heard it said that dingoes are actually one of the smartest breeds of wild dog in the world
Mine was! Absolutely the sweetest with my cat and with children. Also nose touching friend with a resident beaver.
so, essentially, dingoes are chill so long as you don't mess with em.
All day long -that's how much i could delight in watching the Doc enjoying footage of nature's wonders.
Thanks for getting back to me Dr Ann.
Hi Doug, Dr Ann doesn't check these comments, but we'll pass on your suggestion.
My dog once pushed a chair across my family's kitchen to access the counter and eat 4 dozen Christmas cookies my mom made while we were out. Ill never forget that.
I enjoy your channel. Thanks for sharing.
Dingo sounds like the Aussie corruption of Doggo 🙂 0:09
You just blew my mind!! they can look over their shoulder?!!
Dr Ann had me subbed in the first minute!
The caparison of bites vs mauling was nice to hear. I have had run ins with domestic dogs who have turned feral in my neighborhood and I can say this I would rather a curious dingo coming up to investigate me then a pack of former pets cornering me against a the side of a truck looking to full on attack me (which I have had the latter happen)
i have a “domestic” dog pack that occasionally has a pack mentality and, when they get to fighting, i have to get in and brake them up. i don’t go to the doctor for my injuries though i do take the dogs that need it to the vet. i am trying to rehome one of them but, i haven’t found anyone to take her that is trustworthy. i have changed the routine of the one who is always whooped and keep her with me so she is never alone with the rest of the pack. that has pretty much stopped all of the fighting. the last fight, i got bit very badly on the left wrist. had someone wrap it for me and headed to the vet with a severely wounded Streak. She had to stay there for a week. i think i could easily play within a pack of dingoes and keep the alpha position.
They make great pets. Muttley died on his 18th birthday. He was my shadow and we were apart for 9 days in 18yrs.
So my sister adopted a dog during 2020 and when they did a DNA test they found out he’s a Carolina dog. According to the website the Carolina dog is basically the American equivalent of a dingo. However, while the dingo cannot be domesticated, the Carolina Dog *can* be domesticated but is also just fine being feral.
Dingoes are smarter than I am.
I cant stop watching you videos. im learning alot. so i subscribed.
Dingoes are famous for eating students homework.
Just adore anne always funny and interesting but so easy to look at too 🤫😉
Question: Was the clever escapist dingo an isolated instance or are dingos generally very intelligent?
On Frasier Island i would be more worried about the Funnel Web spiders than the dingos
NO KIDDING!!
Wait, what was the tool the dingo used to get out? It's mouth? Honestly asking. My family has had a lot of german shepherds and a couple of em over the years were extremely smart! My mom had to start using padlocks on the dog run & kennel bc one of em learned to open ever other type of latch/locking mechanism we tried, crazy smart dog!
Then I had an unrelated GS in a different household when I became an adult, this dog would literally watch our every move to figure out how the gates, etc worked and as soon as we turn our back she'd go try to mimic what we'd done, 9/10x successfully
I sure do miss those pups!
Horses do that too.
Should look at the South American Maned Wolf. It has a unique roar-bark.
Hey Australia , STOP killing the Dingoes and your mouse problem will go away . Leave the Dingoes alone , they are not pest .
The dingoes actually did eat her baby.
1:18 The Dingo's got my Camera!!!!!!
Sorry .... i couldn't stop myself....
raised 3 dingoes over my time, the most recent was as pure as they come these days, were all dna tested. Biggest problem is their constant love and devotion to the pack ,of which YOU need to be dominant 24/7. Like training a cat, bloody useless. But just like my camels, once you bond it becomes the focus of your life.
Lol...Stealing the tea. My dingo is obsessed with drinking tea. I cannot leave a cup tea around as she will drink it and pull the tab of the tea bag and eat the teabag. When I buy sugar, she watches where I store the sugar bag lol.... She will not touch a cup of coffee but there is something in tea she loves.
You're beautiful 🌻
Last dingo doggo was ready to be domesticated.
had a 70% cross as probably my first dog was smart fast active and friendly to me my friends and most animals, but was also fast active and hostile to anyone creeping about aggressive to me or in anyway threatening to him. Wild dingo generally shy and no threat. but are intelligent and curious, you shouldnt feed wild ones can be friendly even when wild but they arnt, they are cunning will take an opportunity from you if it works for them or against you, anything they can get away with they will. they arnt overly big, dont have overly sized teeth but they are strong fast and those teeth are pin point sharp, also even if you see one or maybe even two you can be sure there are at least a few more watching
I dont know about the domestic dog being more dangerous, those statistics dont acount for the fact most of us never even see a dingo in real life .
I use to raise Red/Blue Heelers cross,,, the absolute best. And crossing them the pups were all much larger than their parents. Super smart...great companions. NOT dangerous at all. One thing I have noticed in all of the video's on Dingoes is the failure to mention the strength of their jaws, the exaggerated jaw muscles. Mine were able to easily crush a tennis ball flat and break a stick about an inch or more in diameter easily.
Dogs of any breed can be dangerous :) There used to be a blue heeler in the next street that was allowed to roam. I walked down the sunny side of the street and it was laying there. It heard me, got up and growled at me. I 'bigged' myself up and tried to intimidate it and it just growled some more and slowly walked towards me, hunched up ready to attack. This was in the days before you could ring up the council and make a complaint. Years later I also had a German Shepherd do the same thing to me, and the council sent a Dog Control person out. I had a working line GSD myself at the time so I wasn't being paranoid about a 'nasty German Shepherd' I just wanted the council to come and get it and stop giving GSD's a bad name. p.s., my GSD took two, maybe three bites to destroy a tennis ball.
We adopted a dingo as a pet. He was great with our three kids.
Crikey. I'm addicted to watching Ann's part of the screen and not the animal video. Wish I could meet her.
"There no where near as bad acting" 🔥 👊🏿😆
As with any animal, there are no bad ones, just bad owners. My Dingo,Sarge. Loved children, my cat, nose touching buddy with our local beaver. One of the smartest canines I ever had the pleasure to have. Would have another in a heartbeat.
I get by with a little help from my friends!! Loved the dingo info
Probably not deadly but an important part in our ecological diversity is the Antechinus aka the marsupial mice!
I sometime see these on my property in SE QLD and they're rare as! Never one to bait but capture and release. They love my goat food and I've captured a few interactions on cctv
YES!
Does Dr. Ann Jones have social media accounts? Like instagram perhaps? I'm currently a freshwoman studying BS Environmental Science and I find her explaining really soothing and it makes me excited more in my field! I'm new to this channel and I'm already aspiring to be like her. I want to follow her!
Hi Shumi Lim, sure! This is Ann on Insta 👉 @_annjones_
Seriously- a fresh woman??? Get OVER yourself
Ann Jones is awesome!
Not the Julia L. Dreyfus slander.😂
My kids want Tassie devils, possum and goannas please
Great suggestions!
It's probably not appropriate to directly compare numbers of injuries from domestic dogs and dingoes to prove the risk from dingoes is lower, because that comparison ignored the chance of encounter.
Hello Anne not dingo related but do you know what to feed a baby yellow throated minor bird resuce it from seagull has taken bit of water n Weetabix seems happy enough thanks for any help , dingo cross breed's are the pests that need caution Jeff
I Haven't seen you guys do video of the frilled lizard, is there any?
"A dingo ate my baby..."
The Dingo's little shnoot 😂
I have a cat that rings our doorbell.
3:50 So they are *not* like wolves in that most packs are made of parents and siblings?
True, wolves dont like young ones and they have to go away alone.
Most canids have that social structure, that of a mother and father and their pups
That’s interesting that sounds like their pack structure aren’t like wolf pack structures at all
We have one that sleeps on our bed with the cat , very emotional animals and pick up on the emotional state of those around them and can be territorial
The two-legged ones are worse.
Dingoes are descended from domesticated dogs, i.e., feral turning wild.
No they are not.
“The earliest known dingo fossil, found in Western Australia, dates to 3,450 years ago. However, genomic analysis indicates that the dingo reached Australia 8,300 years ago but the human population which brought them remains unknown.” - Wikipedia
Thank you grear information
Here in Texas, a pack of Feral Dogs and Coyote killed and consumed an Arab Horse in a single night. By morning all that was left was her skeleton and a 100 foot diameter circle of blood which took place just a couple hundred feet from my home.
I now have Donkeys to stand guard over the Horses and kill Dogs and Coyote.
Do donkeys protect I didn't know that?
I love ABC science
This girl has strange behavior. Is this normal in Australia? Thank you for the great spider footage.
I saw a dingo up close at a wild life sanctuary and it was SO CUTE!! 🥰 No way could they be dangerous! I think you have the wrong animal...
Ann Jones seems like Steve Irwin's long lost cousin. She should get her own Show on animal planet. Highly entertained.
I have personally watched domestic dogs open latched gates, not service dogs, just pets.
If dingos were 100lbs, they’d be a real problem. Let’s put it that way
They sound like a wolf.