Dingo
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ID#20
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Classification: Mammal
Endangered Status: Low risk Habitat: Scrub, semidesert and light woodland; also rain forests The Dingo has pointed erect ears, short light ginger coat/fur with splotches of white on the end of the tail, chest, and feet, but overall the Dingo looks just like a regular house hold dog. The pure/true Dingo will have larger canine and carnassial teeth than the hybrid. The Dingo stands 16-25.5 at the shoulders and usually weighs 33lb. The Dingo will hunt smaller pray alone but Dingos attack in groups when hunting larger pray like a Kangaroo. The Dingo isn’t nocturnal because they hunt for food during the day and rest at night. A Dingo’s diet mainly involves smaller animals and some bigger animals like Kangaroo, calf/cows, along with some vegetation. The Dingo’s mating behaviors are the same as a house hold dogs breading behaviors. The Dingo tends to bread once a year, and its breading interval (length of pregnancy) is up to 63 days. A Dingo’s amount of offspring is 3 to 5 kits. Dingos tend to bread in April-May. An interesting fact about the Dingo is that it’s related to the Tasmanian Devil and was related to the extinct Tasmanian Wolf. A Dingo doesn’t hunt in pairs or solo all the time, they alternate depending on what the preys size is and that they can go from solo to a group just about instantly and act as if it’s perfectly normal. |