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The Fascinating World of Dingoes: From Apex Predators to Famous Trials
TLDR Dingoes are a unique species separate from domestic dogs, serving as apex predators in Australia and playing a crucial role in maintaining ecological balance. They have different coat colors, communicate through howling, and were involved in a famous murder trial in the 1980s.
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Dingoes are not the same as hyenas and are different from domestic dogs.
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Dingoes are their own species, separate from domestic dogs, and they may be closely related to Southeast Asian dogs like Shiba Inus.
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Dingoes have different coat colors depending on where they live, they breed once a year and raise their pups in protected areas, and they can wreak havoc on livestock in Australia.
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Dingoes in Australia serve as an apex predator, keeping populations in check and preventing kangaroos from overeating and starving the land of vegetation, but there is debate over whether to reintroduce dingoes to certain areas due to concerns from the livestock industry.
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Dingoes supposedly don't bark, but communicate through howling, and there was a famous murder trial in the 1980s involving a dingo and a missing baby.
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Lindy Chamberlain was wrongly convicted of murdering her baby based on circumstantial evidence, including the absence of a matinee jacket that her baby was supposedly wearing, until the jacket was found years later with the remains of another person who had fallen to their death.
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In 2012, the fourth coroner's inquest into the death of Azaria Chamberlain vindicated Lindy Chamberlain, stating that a dingo did kill her daughter.
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