Dingo puppies in the Koppermanna area along the Birdsville Track.

The dingo is Australia's largest living land based carnivore, and arrived in Australia from South East Asia about 3500 years ago. It ranges across the Australian mainland but never reached Tasmania. A dingo's colouring is determined by the landscape it inhabits but includes white markings on the chest, feet and tail tip. A dingo does not bark, and it breeds only once a year.

A dingo proof fence was built during the late 19th century to attempt to keep the animal out of the sheep producing country of south eastern Australia; it eventually stretched some 8500 kilometres from Toowomba in Queensland to the Great Australian Bight. It was however only partially successful. The pure dingo strain has been polluted by cross breeding with the domestic dog brought in by European settlers, and while this is currently largely confined to the south east of the continent it is expected that the cross breeds will eventually spread across the continent.