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  • - [Narrator] Meet Mawson and Tingoora,

  • two adorable dingoes.

  • No, these aren't pet dogs.

  • They're actually wild animals.

  • Dingoes are Australia's wild dog,

  • considered a cultural icon

  • but due to interbreeding,

  • pure dingoes have become harder to spot.

  • Hence both Morrison and Tingora's similar appearance

  • to domestic dogs.

  • Dingoes are thought to have been introduced to Australia

  • three to four thousand years ago.

  • They are Australia's largest terrestrial predator.

  • Dingoes hunt everything.

  • From rodents and birds to larger prey, like kangaroos.

  • They are a big part of aboriginal Australian culture

  • yet are seen as pests by livestock farmers

  • due to perceived attacks on animals.

  • Hunting for their skin and interbreeding

  • has left their population vulnerable.

  • This is the dingo.

- [Narrator] Meet Mawson and Tingoora,

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