tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10204506.post116252989389906703..comments2023-07-11T17:43:48.186+05:30Comments on Tahrcountry Musings: Maligned Dingo Has Vital Ecosystem RoleMohan Alembathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18372903723489957447noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10204506.post-1162650386484744022006-11-04T19:56:00.000+05:302006-11-04T19:56:00.000+05:30You know who else is a dingo? This guy.You know who else is a dingo? <A HREF="http://iluvsumeet.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow"> This guy. </A>Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15898059075642471916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10204506.post-1162536420197561762006-11-03T12:17:00.000+05:302006-11-03T12:17:00.000+05:30I am very pleased to see people are finally becomi...I am very pleased to see people are finally becoming aware of the dingo and its place in the Australian environment.<BR/><BR/>Dingoes have been, and still are, subjected to unspeakable cruelty in the country. Apart from being poisoned, shot and trapped they are run down with vehicles, hung from fences, beaten to death with stirrup irons (a favourite Australian image) and so on. The only way this cruelty will be stopped is for there to be an international outcry.<BR/><BR/>One argument used against them is that they have 'only' been here approximately 4500 years (2500 years before the birth of Christ, and well before the founding of the Roman empire just to put it in perspective) and therefore are not Australian 'natives'. It has always struck me as ironic that those who deny them a place in Australian ecology are the most recent newcomers of them all - the Europeans, who have been here only 200 odd years and have managed to cause immense damage to the environment in that time. The Aborigines have never questioned the dingo's place in Australia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com