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Dingoes And Sheep In Pastoral Areas, P C. Thomson
Dingoes And Sheep In Pastoral Areas, P C. Thomson
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Since 1975, a long-term study of dingoes in the Fortescue River area of northern Western Australia has sought to provide the detailed information necessary to devise efficient dingo management strategies.
Dingoes have been fitted with radio-transmitter collars, then tracked and observed from a specially equipped aircraft. Their movements, breeding, hunting and social behaviour have been monitered in the rugged, spinifex-covered ironstone terrain which represents typicaldingo refuge country, and in neighbouring sheep country.
Although the pastoral and agricultural industry have long recognised the need to control dingoes to protect livestock, particularily sheep, there is little published evidence about the type of …
Dingo Control : Organised Ground Baiting Drives At Mating Time, C D. Gooding, J. J. Freeth
Dingo Control : Organised Ground Baiting Drives At Mating Time, C D. Gooding, J. J. Freeth
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
DINGOES in Western Australia, like all "creatures of nature", have a well defined seasonal pattern of behaviour.
This is influenced somewhat by weather variations, but even in remote areas where violent fluctuations in rainfall occur from year to year, the dingo still breeds at roughly the same time.
The numbers of pups born and the numbers which survive each year varies a lot, but life goes on at roughly the same tempo under most seasonal conditions.