The dingo has some unusual traits - a great tree climber and at times a bit aloof, but these are interesting traits and are in the same category as the dingoes nearest cousin the New Guinea Singing Dog and the Finnish Spitz, but displaying the same characteristics.
With the European's introduction of domesticsheep and rabbit, the Dingo population flourished.
The Federal Government classifies the Dingo as wildlife and it may not be exported except from and to registered and approved wildlife parks and zoos.
The dingo probably competed with and took over the ecological niche of the smaller thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial, and may have contributed to its disappearance from Australia.
Dingoes are carnivores, but they eat almost anything: insects, rodents, carrion, and vegetable matter.
Dingoes are sometimes captured young by Aboriginal Australians and kept as hunting companions.
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