Dingo facts! What you should know about dingoes! The Wildlife Twins

[@karenpaull823]

Thank you for bringing our beautiful, unique Aussie dingo into the public forum in such an entertaining and positive manner.

[@seamusobrien2675]

My dingo has a different emotional palette than a domestic dog. She is happy to work with me as I am a respected partner but she does not take orders, cooperation is achieved by quiet suggestion or invitation. She's none too happy when I need to go out without her and unlike a domestic dog not full then enthusiasm when I return. I get sniffed all over and looked at with suspicion but she warms up eventually. She keeps her distance from other people and when they try to become her best friend she's quite standoffish. Once she decides that you're her friend she remembers you individually even if she hasn't seen you for quite a while. Dingo's make great mates but they're never going to be a domestic dog.

[@alphayt7744]

Turbo is just happy to be there and participate😂😂😊

[@19Trent69]

I saw a Dingo bound across the Sturt hwy, Nullabour straight in front of me... would have been an adult as it only took two touches on the road to speed across it to the other side.. disappeared very quickly.. amazing strength and agility.. 🐕 💨💨

[@reddog5378]

The only way to reverse our declining environment is to reintroduce Dingoes and restore the balance that was perfectly held for 10 or more thousand years before eradication.

[@jo902100]

We can start by stopping dropping 1080 into national parks

[@skylasjourney]

dingo's are cool i got to interact with some when i was a kid one of the best things i've ever done

[@WannonCreekWildlife]

Great stuff guys!

[@stephenking4170]

I have had kelpies and also a pure bred dingo in New Zealand. The dingo was definitely a wild animal even after it was bonded to you. My dingo was female but even so, it did not accept me as the alpha until I had a serious fight with it and won. This was a surprise to ma because after breeding many kelpies I had never had to use physical force on a female dog although some males got to a cheeky stage and asked for physical reassurance of my alpha role. It was a privilege to have the wild animal as a bonded "partner". It was extremely loyal but can't teach it to obey instructions like a kelpie. Another difference with dingos is that their tail can move like a cat. It could run full tilt then turn a circle and continue seemingly without slowing or stopping. They can also jump like a kangaroo but on all fours especially in tall grass so it can see while moving. A fun thing is that when I was driving it would stand on the back seat with a paw over each of my shoulders and its head on mine, like a hat.

[@andrewattenboroughtwothumb4697]

Amazing video on dingoes ladies seen a few on Fraser Island now know as ingari

[@19Trent69]

😂😂😂😂😏great intro

[@JakeHollibone]

Omg so freaking cute

[@courtneygillespie1187]

Good day mate 😉

[@samphillips9398]

Do adult Dinos encourage the pups to wrestle?

[@thewildlifetwins8076]

Absolutely! But the pups all together would naturally start to perform the behaviour.

[@Dingosimon]

Strewth, it's too much, pssst who is Dave ?

[@loriace9841]

I would have thought the Aussies would have learned from their disastrous treatment of Thylacines. If America can live with wolves, bears and mountain lions, Aussies should be able to strike a balance with dingoes.

[@sophiethomson9960]

Yewwww

[@iyeetsecurity922]

*But, I heard they eat babies.*

[@RS-sc2zr]

but, the dingo ate baby.

[@crabking0]

ok

[@ceebaby5651]

STOP KILLING DINGOS - They lived here first

[@songnguyen1516]

i'm a kid

[@gegemec]

Does this kind of video mean that people become less wary of the dingo in the wild ? I am mindful of the fact that several dingos have been destroyed on K'gari (Fraser Island). The uninformed public sees domesticated dingos like yours being treated like domestic dogs This might create a misconception about the interface with wild dingos and tourists try to get too friendly and individual dingos losing their healthy respect for distance from invading tourists, leading to their own downfall for not behaving predictably. I did not watch your whole video, you (hopefully) dealt with this issue in the body of your publication but I am responding to the very cutesy images at the start and end of the video. The image works very much more on the viewer than any discussion can.

[@thewildlifetwins8076]

Great comment. We are very mindful of this, it’s a double edged sword. To give you some background we conduct educational wildlife shows in the northern nsw area. Warragul and Dundee (our two alpine dingoes) are on our demonstrators licence. So we must aline with regulations set but the licensee in nsw and have approved training/demonstration procedures just to do what we do with them. When we take them to shows our main aim is to explain the difference between a dingo and a dog and the role they play in our environment. Mind you people see a very well behaved and stress free dingo in these situations, as we have put many hours into them so they can do this job, so naturally people believe that’s how dingoes can act/they could “own” a dingo too. Even if we advise them of the work we have done. At the end of the day dingo education is quite a new thing, in the forms of social media and live demonstrations. So I’m sure the best way to education on this topic will evolve over time and we are all here for it. I should note in our demonstrations our dingoes are never handled or touched by anyone else but us. This is for a few reasons but mostly to give people the understanding that these aren’t a domestic dog.