Australia: "Furry Creature" Falls From The Sky, Turns Out To Be Endangered Dingo

[G.L.R.]

Wounded 'Pup' Dropped Into Lady's Yard by Bird Turns Out to Be Rare Dingo Down Under

October 14, 2021


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When an Aussie woman discovered a wounded pup in her backyard, she assumed he was a dog or a fox. After DNA testing, he turned out to be an endangered species of wild dingo. Two years on, the rehabilitated pup has become a crucial player in an ongoing breeding program. The dingo pup was found in August 2019 when he dropped from the sky... "[Jayne] had awoken to howls of stress one winter morning and found the source as a wild-colored, furry little creature cowering under a tussock of grass," Lyn Watson, director of the Australian Dingo Foundation, "She took him indoors to warm and offer him food and water."

Noticing his "bloodied paws and obvious discomfort," Jayne took the weeks-old pup to see wildlife veterinarian Dr. Bec Day of Alpine Animal Hospital. Noticing talon piercings on the pup's back, she guessed a bird of prey had tried to snatch him as a meal. "At least this explained how he could simply appear in a fenced back garden," said Lyn. Dr. Day sent DNA samples to genetics researcher Dr. Kylie Cairns at the University of New South Wales. The pup, named Wandi after the town where he was found,... at the foothills of Victoria's Macedon Ranges.

Owing to faulty equipment, it took months for Lyn and her team to receive confirmation of Wandi's DNA that he was pure alpine dingo. According to sanctuary manager Kevin Newman, 34, Australian dingoes are often seen as a threat to livestock and are subject to lethal control in many areas. But the average dingo, said Lyn, consumes only 350 to 500 grams of food per day, equivalent to "a couple of fat lizards or bush rats." "For many years, scientists and other stakeholders argued that there were no pure or true dingoes left in Victoria," Kevin explained. "But Wandi's DNA test proved otherwise. It was quite a shock to all of us to know that alpine dingoes, which are the most at-threat in the wild, are still living and surviving in the wild here."

Kevin was tasked with publicizing Wandi's story on Instagram; the page has amassed almost 60,000 followers to date. "He has an air of celebrity about him ... in fact, his social media has inspired one artist to portray him as 'Lord Wandi,' and an original work graces our entrance hall."Then in 2021, Wandi became a father to six cubs... Now almost 80, Lyn started Dingo Discovery Sanctuary with her late husband, Peter, after his retirement in 2002. As president of their state's kennel club, Peter had had legal dingo ownership legislated through parliament 10 years prior, and the couple have owned dingoes ever since... The pure alpine dingo is a species engendered entirely by nature without human intervention. Once revered by indigenous people, they were demonized and exterminated by European sheep graziers from the 18th century.

Wounded 'Pup' Dropped Into Lady's Yard by Bird Turns Out to Be Rare Dingo Down Under

[G.L.R.]

There's no nature & environment or science forum here, and everything seems to relate to Australia!  So being a canine lover, thought this might break up the usual scum-bag hacks in power and political stuff.

[Rev.Cambeul]

The Australian Dingo is related to the Indian Wolf. Some breeds are indistinguishable in appearance from the Indian Wolf/Dingo.

Despite the bullshit that Australia was settled ONCE AND ONCE ONLY by Abos 80K years ago, there were waves of mud immigrants prior to White Settlement. The majority of which were not even human by today's standards, as they were Homo Erectus. Next came Denisovan - the extinct species of human that lived in Asia at the same time as Neanderthals lived in Europe. Homo-Sapiens drifted in over time, and finally Homo-Sapiens-Sapiens added to the mix approximately 3K to 5K years ago. They were Indians from India or the neighbouring region, and brought with them their dogs - the Indian Wolf. That is also why Indians and Abos are often physically indistinguishable as separate races, just as some breeds of the Dingo are indistinguishable from the Indian Wolf.

Some years ago, when truth was still in style, anthropologists declared that had Whites not settled Australia, the Indian breed of Abos from the North would have conquered and possibly wiped out the rest of the Abos by now. Not that that would be difficult to do, as there were less than a million native inhabitants in Australia when the White Man arrived on South Victory Day in 1776.

... But the truth has been declared "RACIST!" Anything that doesn't declare Abos with a capital "A" to be Special with a capital "S," and Sacred to the country is a White Supremacist lie. And now you know why Abos reject DNA testing in order that frauds are prevented from receiving the taxpayer funded Abo Only Handout. The biggest frauds are the Abos themselves with their sub-human and modern Indian DNA.

There's no nature & environment or science forum here

Firstly, this entire forum is dedicated to Nature and Science - that's the Creator way. Secondly, we have the Anthropology sub-forum in General Jabber. That's the important one. As for the rest, News is News - stick it where it fits, otherwise everything else fits in General Jabber. When I first built this version of Creator Forum twenty years ago, I filled it with the half a million categories that Stormfront has. A waste of bloody time. Generalised areas for simplicity is what is required.

... and everything seems to relate to Australia!

Yeah, you Americans would say that. We know that if it's not about America, and it's not relegated to the bowels of the deepest, darkest, dungeons of the netherworld of all life, then it's obtrusive and foreign to Americans. So, don't be so narrow mindedly Nationalist - you Racist!
The "Race Card" has been played. Argument won.