Man displaying a dead dingo |
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| Title : | Man displaying a dead dingo |
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| Date of creation : | ca. 1920 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Dimensions : | 200 x 155 mm | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
A dingo hunter named 'Sugar' holds a dingo he has killed. Dingoes arrived in Australia about 3000-4000 years ago. Following white settlement in 1788, the dingo was not immediately perceived as a threat to the European lifestyle. However as the sheep flocks grew and spread, opinion changed and the dingo was hunted remorselessly as a perceived threat to the sheep. They were hunted, trapped and poisoned. Then in the 1880s construction began on a dingo proof fence which would eventually stretch from the Great Australian Bight to southern Queensland. This was an attempt to keep the dingo out of the main sheep areas of Australia. The attempt was not entirely successful. Some dingoes remained inside the fence and these have bred with domestic dogs; it is becoming difficult, particularly within south eastern Australia, to find pure bred dingoes. |
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| Period : | 1919-1927 |
| Further reading : | Managing the impacts of dingoes and other wild dogs by Peter Fleming ... [et al.]; scientific editing by Mary Bomford Canberra: Bureau of Rural Sciences, 2001 |
| Internet links : | Dingo management in South Australia : Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation website Australian Museum animals website : search for dingo |
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