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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRp2xp73n0s
David Pollock from Wooleen Station in WA discusses the benefits of retaining Dingoes in the landscape. Covering over a quarter of a million acres of picturesque Outback, Wooleen Station is a cattle station that is playing a leading role in preserving and sustaining the unique ecology of the region.
As apex predators, Dingoes are important in maintaining the environmental health of Australian landscapes. Increasing evidence from scientific research and from on-ground observations by land managers show that they can be valuable partners in agriculture.
They reduce over-grazing by controlling kangaroos and controlling, in some cases locally eradicating, feral herbivore pests (goats, pigs and rabbits) and carnivores (foxes and cats). By maintaining Dingo populations on their properties, graziers will additionally benefit by a reduction in the costs, time and frustration spent in the often unsuccessful effort to control them.
It is acknowledged and recognised that for sheep and goat producers, Dingoes in a district can have severe impacts unless there are active measures – not necessarily lethal – to protect these smaller stock.
To learn more about Landholders for Dingoes and other graziers on beef cattle enterprises who don't indiscriminately persecute Dingoes, visit our website: www.landholdersfordingoes.org
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Are dingos known to grab calves as they are being born?
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ThreeThreeEight
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Are dingos known to grab calves as they are being born?
I was wondering the same thing. Maybe not?! I know coyotes have been known to not only kill new born calves when they hit the ground, but go right in and start tearing at a calf as the cow is having it...and tear up the cows nether regions while they are at it. This is not just a second hand story, I have witnessed it first hand, and spent a good bit of time shooting them during calving season back before we retired and still had cattle, horses and sheep.
Anyways, be interesting to find out if dingoes display similar behaviour. I am sure some of the ranchers on this site from Down Under will be able to speak to it. 
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In Victoria, dingoes are know to take fully grown sambar. Biologically they aren't too dissimilar to Indian dhols, which are one of the main sambar predators. An animal which regularly predates on sambar will have little problem taking on any herbivore short of buffalo.
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They will kill calves full stop, until they get bigger.
But dingos unlike wild dogs are solitary hunters so they only take what they can kill the easiest. That's why they are so bad on sheep stations as sheep are the easiest prey around compared to native animals.
They are not much of a threat to cattle stations for that reason but they will kill an easy calf but not if there's something easier to grab.
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Tks to both of you - thought as much.
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ThreeThreeEight
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Thanks guys, appreciate the info.
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In France in particular and in Western Europe in general probably, the Greens and their politicians accomplices have used the same rationale for re-introducing and fully protecting wolf and lynx; "this will benefit the eco-system by improving the quality of the existing big game stock and reducing over grazing". This was the theory, seen with rose-tinted spectacles.
The practice is slightly different:
- Although lynx does not prey on sheep and cattle, they impact negatively on roe deer (one adult roe deer a week for an adult lynx on an average basis), and also on chamois populations to a lesser extent.
- Wolf (c.1000 in France, population increasing annually since first Italian wolves crossed the Alps in early 1990’s) have almost wiped out the mouflon population in the French Alps (mouflon being an easy quarry to catch in heavy snow); of course wolf also prey on other large wild mammals (red deer, roe deer, wild boar mainly) but as they are not always easy to catch, they prefer turning on sheep. Financial compensation paid with tax-payer money by French Government to farmers averaged EURO 30 Million (USD 31,5M) in 2020 and increases annually. Wolf populations growth is in theory under control and a “Wolf Brigade” (Government Agents only as wolf not eligible to hunting) kills annually 20% of the estimated stock, however population increases steadily, there are now around 150 identified packs in-country and single wolves have in 2022 been spotted as far as in Normandy and Western Brittany.
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The article to me reads like a load of rubbish. Greenie imaginative rubbish. A "re-wilding" type attitude, though dingoes have always been present.
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It is acknowledged and recognised that for sheep and goat producers, Dingoes in a district can have severe impacts unless there are active measures – not necessarily lethal – to protect these smaller stock.
And then there is this, non lethal means of dealing with dingoes on sheep stations. What a joke.
Probably the article is through some government grant and some animal rights sympathiser type.
I've long wanted to do a specialised dingo desert hunt.
Have to watch the video still.
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