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- noun Alternative spelling of
dingos ; plural form ofdingo .
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Examples
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Olbinett prepared the evening meal with his accustomed punctuality, and after this was dispatched, the travelers disposed themselves for the night in the wagon and in the tent, and were soon sleeping soundly, notwithstanding the melancholy howling of the "dingoes," the jackals of Australia.
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During the daytime we were taken to see animals that were indigenous to Australia - such as dingoes, wombats and koala bears.
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Wallach (2009) also observed that baiting and shooting dingoes makes them prone to attacking lambs and crucially, that reintroducing them helps prey diversity.
Biodiversity 100: actions for Australia Guillaume Chapron 2010
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Initial media coverage of the incident focused on whether dingoes were physically able to carry a baby off or even inclined to do so and quickly shifted onto the parents as suspects.
Dingo baby case that divided a nation could be closed at last 2011
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Sheep and cattle farmers may oppose to this action, but one solution is to increase the use of 'guardian' sheep dogs to keep dingoes away from vulnerable animals.
Biodiversity 100: actions for Australia Guillaume Chapron 2010
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Evidence: There is accumulating evidence that culling dingoes has contributed to the mammal extinction crisis in Australia, including studies led by Johnson (2007), Johnson and VanDerWal (2009), Wallach (2009) and Wallach (2010).
Biodiversity 100: actions for Australia Guillaume Chapron 2010
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I remember writing a bash fic about my own characters, where I had them ripped apart by dingoes, burned alive, murdered, fed to rats etc until they were all dead.
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It's now looking at dingoes, not people, as to the cause of death.
Dingo baby case that divided a nation could be closed at last 2011
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He was very shocked to learn that no, NZ was not part of Australia, and no, we did not have dingoes or kangaroos or snakes or crocodiles.
Land Of My Bones. karenhealey 2010
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Maybe you were raised by dingoes in the aboriginal wilds.
John Shore: No Heaven For You! John Shore 2011
mollusque commented on the word dingoes
I knew it was going to be one of those crazy days. Everybody has them. Days when nobody rolls in but the loose wheels, the dingoes who park their brains with their gum, the squirrels who can't find their nuts, the mechanics who always have a gear left over.
Raymond Chandler, 1953, The Long Goodbye, chapter 21
September 5, 2009