Ep 04 The IMPORTANCE of the DINGO // The role of Australia’s Apex Predator
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Welcome, or welcome back to the final episode of the series All About the Dingo!
In this one I discuss the importance of Australia's top order predator, including how they maintain balanced ecosystems AND can actually benefit cattle farmers!
I hope this sparks some discussions about Australia's most controversial animal, please leave any questions and comments below!
Many thanks to Lyn Watson and the team at the Australian Dingo Foundation.
Cheers,
Zali
THE SCIENCE
Why Do Some Graziers Want to Retain Not Kill Dingoes - www.australian...
The Dingo as a management tool on a beef cattle enterprise in western Queensland - doi.org/10.788...
Angus Emmott | Australian Zoologist (2020)
Dingoes in the Victorian Alpine Region - rcaae.org/2020...
Zali Jestrimski | The Victorian Naturalist (2020)
Taxonomic status of the Australian dingo: the case for Canis dingo Meyer, 1793 - dx.doi.org/10.1...
Bradley P Smith et al. | Zootaxa (2019)
What is a dingo-origins, hybridisation and identity - doi.org/10.788...
Kylie M Cairns | Australian Zoologist (2021)
Australia’s dingo fence from space: satellite images reveal its effects on landscape -
www.theguardia...
WOLVES INFLUENCE ELK MOVEMENTS: BEHAVIOR SHAPES A TROPHIC CASCADE IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK - doi.org/10.189...
Daniel Fortin et al. | Ecological Society of America (2005)
Links:
AUSTRALIAN DINGO FOUNDATION
dingofoundatio...
INSTAGRAM
@wandi_dingo
www.instagram....
@dingodiscovery
www.instagram....
MUSIC
Bensound - Hey
UA-cam Music
IMAGES
Crocodile - Pixabay
Cream Dingo - Australian Dingo Foundation
Dingo with Fox - Australian Dingo Foundation
Love the video, thank you for spreading information on the dingo. Australia needs to recognise the importance of the species, correctly taxonomically classify the species and establish uniform conservation policies.
Great video - look forward to further videos. The ecosystem benefits are of particular interest.
I have met pastoralists in the Murchison region of Western Australia who have huge issues with dingo predation. One of the perspectives held by these station owners is that by poisoning / controlling dingoes is detrimental as it upsets the natural territorial ness of bonded pairs, allowing unbonded younger dingos in the area which are apparently more prone ot attacking livestock.
Currently the NSW NPWS is throwing poisoned baits out of planes around my property in the Blue Mountains NSW (to "control wild dogs and foxes").
We have a maremma dog that keeps foxes (or dingos or anything else) away from our chooks. Works well - she was very easy to train and is also great with kids and all our rural neighbours. As a result we have peaceful coexistence with dingos in the national park.
Hey there!
Wonderful to hear that you have had success with your maremma! I think guardian animals should be more common for people who have issues with dingoes.
Yes absolutely, I believe that killing dingoes creates more problems for farmers than it solves. I’m in the process of planning more videos about dingo livestock conflicts.
Baiting in National Parks and wildlife areas seems absurd to me considering that if dingoes were not lethally controlled, they may have success in controlling fox populations. Quolls and other wildlife are also at risk.
And dropping 1080 out of planes surely means that the movement of baits around a landscape becomes very unpredictable, especially as foxes cache baits that they find.
Thanks for your comment and support!
With Australia top predators like tasmanian tiger, marsupial lion and megalania all extinct, there is almost no one to fill in the top predator roll but the dingo
Absolutely
@@thedingochannel I wonder if you couldn't try to organise ro release dingoes in Tasmania? Of course you would need to speak to the right people and not just ship them over, but it might be something to consider to help the breed grow again, and I would imagine the alpines would be the best to be sent if at all possible due to the similar climates, compared to the rest. It would be interesting to see if it could be done
@@trevormerivale6882 Great idea. The got rid of trash like the Tasmanian devil and thylacine, and likley many other species on the mainland. refuges like Tasmania need curing from such nonsense, these wonderful dingoes should be prioritised over all others.
Most mainland dingoes are hybrids now, = vermin & detrimental to pure dingo.
Where they are excluded on the mainland some very rare species have recovered, note foxes & cats might also be excluded/intensively controlled in such refuges, unknown.
If any islands that have had long term dingo occupation exist (apart from Kangaroo, already established) there is valid cause for establishing a few more dingo reserves, on the mainland the horse has bolted in most places & wild dogs (of which dingoes a merely a type) are a problem. Caveat being if locations are shown to benefit and have plenty of dingo-proof refuges for endangered natives (dingos are an ecologically recent introduction) dingo management is an option. They may provide some benefit where unmanaged pests like pigs. buffalo, goats, deer, rabbits cats, foxes etc occur, something where objective science is needed. Multiple studies, as single studies can record anomalies disproportionality to wider populations, leading to skewed conclusions much like wild dog sympathisers. The latter may be better employed advocating/constructing a few representative large dingo fenced enclosures and stocking them with any local pure dingoes before they become technically extinct .
really great informative series, enjoyed it and learnt a lot. so surprised that they can't metabolize fat!! would have thought that would be a very important resource being a hunter!
Kangaroos yeeting their babies to save themselves though! 😧
Zali you gorgeous
Great channel.. can you do a video on the dingo mixed breads... like cattle dogs /healers? They are half dingo.... thank you.
Australias Apex predator should be the Thylacine as it was before Humans introduced the Dingo from Asia.
wonderfully informative and succinct thank you so much
I learned a lot, thank you
They're still a dog though. Canis lupus dingo. They can breed with most wolf species and literally all dog breeds. This absolutely produces fully fertile offspring basically every time. They're dogs. And to top it off, the oldest dingo specimen ever found was around 3,500 years old. Humans arrived roughly 65,000 years ago. Dingoes were introduced. There are no other extant species of canid literally anywhere in Australia except for Canis Lupus Familiaris, and we all know how it got there.
Noticeable Dingoes are very slim...[unlike most Australians]. So excellent, thank you and good to hear the slow re-think of some farmers.
Did you ever see the Disney flic "Old Yaller"? In that one, Ol' Yeller is a retriever. In the book it's about a Native American dog- ie, pre-Columbian, a Dingo. In spite of hybridizing with European breeds they're still around. Two friends of mine (in different states) have adopted one. They're in South America too. They call them "Perros Criollos" = "native dogs" Genetic tests say they're not European.
If anyone ever makes me get a dog, I will name it "Dingo".
Great video, thank you
Thanks so much for a great series.
Thank you for watching ☺️
Take care honey
no it not a Dingo, it a dog
In the same sense that a fox coyote jackal and wolf are a dog, but they are different. Please look into it because dingoes are beautiful animals and are very misunderstood.
Ok weird Canada guy
@@trevormerivale6882 The misunderstanding extends to many of the ideas around dingoes, for and against them. And many other species, modern media promoting themes that are not always factual (& note knowledge develops, over time some accepted "facts" are shown to be misunderstandings) enable this to proliferate. The comment about the canids above being one such distortion. Dingoes are basically a breed of dog, and wild dogs may substitute the wolf/coyote type predator to some limited extent, but also can be far more damaging than other types of predator. Australia's fauna would be very different without them ever having been there.