👋 A clarification on 00:55 - Wild dingoes and your pet ‘blue heeler’ are different - particularly in behaviour - but their genetics are much closer than we indicate here. Since European contact dingoes have crossbred with other dog breeds to form hybrids and some historical reports suggests the Aussie blue heeler might actually be one of them. If we take a look at the dingo ‘family tree’, genomic studies have revealed their origins can be traced to ancient breeds of domesticated dogs in Asia. They are much closer to domestic dogs than wolves genetically speaking. But as they’re largely free-living animals, don’t expect dingoes to behave like your typical canine companion.

@rosewoodstables6513

3 жыл бұрын

My family have a bingo but he is 12 or 15 years old

@gazepskotzs4

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome video! I've been binge watching them the last few days and i love your vids! Very informative!

@gregmcb5305

2 жыл бұрын

Unless you’re in invasive wild feral cat you’ve got nothing to worry about with dingoes

@jeffreylewis2737

Жыл бұрын

@@gregmcb5305 My understanding is that the geneome sequencing for all dogs and wolves is incomplete. That is: there are significant gaps between various connections eg the grey wolf and the domestic dog> Which particular type of grey wlf gave rise to the domestic dog? Is that particular greay wolf extinct? The dingo is the same. I'm sorry: I find the conclusions you draw are only speculations...

@deonettag4559

7 ай бұрын

What about the red heeler?

There is a case where dingos actually did carry off a baby. The mom insisted that dingos took her baby but law enforcement accused her instead. The mom was convicted, served prison time and afterward a hiker discovered a baby blanket in a dingo den. It matched the missing baby's blanket. Further investigation showed that dingos had taken the baby.

@q-miiproductions878

11 ай бұрын

Thankfully, the Chamberlain-Creightons were absolved after that official revelation.

@michaelfrost4584

2 ай бұрын

And yet there are still some cops still think the mother killed the poor baby.

@patriciadawson4164

Ай бұрын

​@@michaelfrost4584 it's not only Police who don't believe a Dingo did it, I don't. I didn't believe it back then, and there is no new evidence that leads me to believe it now.

@sophroniel

19 күн бұрын

All australians know

I always thought the dingo eating a baby thing was an urban legend, but apparently a dingo really did eat a baby. And then the parents were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for murder. That's heartbreaking! I mean, it's not the dingo's fault. They were camping in a remote area. It's not the parent's fault either, though. I mean, who would expect that to ever happen? Apparently, the dingo went inside the tent and got the baby. Damn, that's tragic. :( If a wild animal ate my baby and then I was wrongfully imprisoned, I would have a whole entire nervous breakdown.

@eilenekellogg7017

2 жыл бұрын

They where absolved from the from of murdering the baby, when a few yrs later another baby was taken by a dingo. Then they searched the first couples area where they had been camping and found the child's clothing in the brush.

@alli-kat2329

2 жыл бұрын

Azaria Chamberlain

@jimothyj2638

2 жыл бұрын

Wild how one death led to a nationwide genocide campaign against all dingoes

@sarenace

Жыл бұрын

Lindey Chamberlain yeah

@laurencew5220

Жыл бұрын

Yes that is true I think its discusting that a stupid sitcom could make fun of that idiot's

"They're nowhere near as deadly as bad acting" 😁 Dr Ann definitely needs her tv show

@jamesbriggs3092

3 жыл бұрын

Ann was right about that. lol

@seanziegler477

3 жыл бұрын

brilliant line!

@syosspalm8505

3 жыл бұрын

@@seanziegler477 brilliant indeed

@FeelItRising

Жыл бұрын

multiple award winning, fantastic actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus

@isitoveryet9525

Жыл бұрын

@@FeelItRising right lol Plus it was one of the most successful sitcoms. Not sure why some Aussies get so defensive when it comes to that, considering it was their own government who made an absolute spectacle outta the Chamberlain case. They’re the ones who acted like it was impossible for a dingo to eat a baby, so the rest of the world just followed suit 😬

I had a dingo in the 90s his name was stub (his old owner cut his tail off and he had a stub....so stub) He was the most protective/smartest dog I've ever had....when my brother was a toddler there was 2 dogs on the other side of the fence in the neighbors yard and he nudged my little brother away from the other dogs and would walk with him to make sure he didn't get too close to the fence.... I love dingos Rest in peace Stub

@samanzibar

2 ай бұрын

so cool!

i got in to a fight with a man in thailand. I confiscated a pup that was being used as bait. i gave the pup to my 4yo daughter, he would protect my daughter and my cat with his life! He was very different to domesticated dogs but so was the cat that would go into the water to catch fish like big fish

Prehistoric man sees curious wild dog: Heeey buddy Modern man: Oh my god a savage beast

@mjh5437

Жыл бұрын

Prehistoric man saw wolves,the "dogs" we see are their descendents.

@samanzibar

2 ай бұрын

I've seen people hesitate to eat fruit from a tree, even if they had eaten it many times from a store lol

That dingo opening the gate reminds me of our last dog, Rocky, who was -- we were told -- a GSD x Kelpie, but he had the same colouring and similar shape as a dingo. He'd open our back sliding door with no real difficulties...he'd hop up on his back legs, lift the lock with his nose, and then use his snout to push the heavy door across. It was very handy because we didn't have to get up and let him out all the time but it would also get annoying, especially in winter, lol.

@moragmacgregor6792

3 жыл бұрын

Our dogs open doors often but they _never_ close them !

I would probably say that a dingo is sort of roughly the size of something like a coyote and while it's not they're not that dangerous by themselves because of there limited size they can be sometimes be aggressive and they do attack in packs they are not something which actually kills a lot of people.A common domestic dog particularly if its fairly large is definitely far more likely to kill somebody then what dingos are.

@proudlywild1491

5 ай бұрын

True but coyotes have a much weaker jaw. And smaller teeth

it's always fascinating to me, that wolves are famous for howling, but they aren't the only wild canine that howls

@pattymo698

2 жыл бұрын

Coyotes howl and so does my teacup poodle.

@DigitalDuelist

2 жыл бұрын

@@pattymo698 most dogs will if you start howling.

@planemod8399

2 жыл бұрын

All true dogs howl

@viagemeinvestir

2 жыл бұрын

@@pattymo698 as far I know, coyotes haul across the American border with Mexico, undocumented people that will be used in large scale as hard workers necessary to the well-being of Americans

@KutWrite

Жыл бұрын

My neighbor's Afghan hound howls mournfully every night.

My first dog was a Dingo-Spitz hybrid. A friend of the family was a captain of a freighter. He took her on board the ship with him but it didn't work out. We adopted her but NYC was no place for a Dingo mix. Skippy was always high-strung and very protective of the family, but aggressive with everyone else. Skip really behaved more Dingo-like than dog. She wound up biting too many visitors and had to be euthanized at age 10. Poor Skippy, she should have never been taken from her true home. She would have been much better served if she'd be allowed to stay in the Outback.

Best narrator! So funny and at the same time educational...thanks all the way from Denmark 😎🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰💥

My cats ears all perked up at the Dingo howling. I'm not so sure they accept apologies though, they are cats after all.

Thanks Anne, looking forward to the docco tonight!

Humans are deadlier.

@VikingNorway-pb5tm829

3 жыл бұрын

Yes ;)

@Vixenschuuring

Ай бұрын

Definitely. More than any animal imaginable

Dr Jones cracks me up with her reactions.

man.. when i was 14 we went bushwalking for our health class and there were dingo howls all around at night. we kept being told they were far off but it was still so scary to hear!!

Hi Dr Ann love the content how about the cassowary they are dangerous. I live in Tasmania how about some content from here please.

@ABCScience

3 жыл бұрын

Nice suggestion Doug! We should do a Tassie episode.

you deserve more followers this show is great and i enjoy it very much so does my daughter very educational appreciate the amazing content

i have one. I love him. Hes settled down in his older age..he was dangerous. He can bend his wrist in a circle. Hips touch his above his spin..its crazy..he can hold i to you like a person.

Just watched again a few of your videos and it seems you have as warped a sense of humour as mine. Love watching your expressions. Wish I could meet you but Aus is a long way from UK. Keep 'em coming.

Hi, Dr. Ann!! I am happily binge-watching all of your videos!!!! Love yer guts!!💗❤️💕

They also have beautiful soft fur and their reflexes are incredibly quick. When working at Canberra Zoo I had the honour of walking them for their daily exercise. I blinked and the Dingo I was walking snatched a goose that was roaming freely and they wandered too close. It released it soon after but not without humiliating me in front of many ppl. Hold their leash firmly if you walk them!

So, I've seen some Ann Jones videos before: really enjoyable. That said, two things Jones says in this video are questionable: 1) Dingoes are the only canines that can look over their shoulder. I haven't studied wolves, but I've raised a LOT of dogs, and...even the latest one currently looks over his shoulder at me -- usually when looking out a window, I talk too much about him. He has a "look of reproval" that is devastating. 2). I've ALSO seen a lot of my dogs use "tools" -- without persusasion -- but always for fun and games. The current, "look of reproval", dog likes to pick up one toy so that he can bat (or kind of play golf with) another toy, usually a ball. He also uses tools to play games: he uses a blanket to play hide and seek with himself, when we are too busy, "hiding" the ball and then uncovering it. I suppose it one is hindered by "bloke society" definitions and thinking (tools are ONLY for work or "problem solving") THEN one might think Ann Jones is correct. But she isn't.

@downundanow5569

Жыл бұрын

Ann didn't really do the dingoes head twisting justice. A dingo could put its 'chin' on its spine. Have a look at this at 2:06 into the vid.

@cursedGalataea

Ай бұрын

Tool use does have a different definition from playing with toys, sweetie

All day long -that's how much i could delight in watching the Doc enjoying footage of nature's wonders.

I cant stop watching you videos. im learning alot. so i subscribed.

2:30 actually, I have witnessed spontaneous tool use with my domesticated dogs many times, especially with my last dog who was a brilliant escape artist and was very good at problem solving. The dog behaviourist didn't believe me until they saw it for themselves.

I enjoy your channel. Thanks for sharing.

I'm super fascinated with the Common Tree Snake (Dendrelaphis punctulatus) ... How the blinking-heck do they climb a vertical brick wall. Also they are sometimes BLUE!!!

@ABCScience

3 жыл бұрын

Ohhh. Good suggestion!

I love that she reacts to her own video!

@ABCScience

3 жыл бұрын

Ann was certainly surprised by that. Thanks for watching Eric!

I Haven't seen you guys do video of the frilled lizard, is there any?

I have a pet dingo, and she is a timid baby who loves other animals and people, trained her to lay down for belly rubs, they are so intelligent

@artbeutler515

Жыл бұрын

I have a 15 year old dingo that is loved by everyone. She is our special baby.

Dr Ann had me subbed in the first minute!

I get by with a little help from my friends!! Loved the dingo info

Dingo's are so beautiful to me.. Cannot wait until this Pandemic is over to come visit!

@mythicalcreaturesfantasy

3 жыл бұрын

They're beautiful but just remember to stay safe too I'm a Australian by the way

There are many dog breeds that can look over their own shoulder, Norwegian Lundehound can look backwards in a vertical plane, like tilt your head upwards so much that you can sorta look backwards.

The caparison of bites vs mauling was nice to hear. I have had run ins with domestic dogs who have turned feral in my neighborhood and I can say this I would rather a curious dingo coming up to investigate me then a pack of former pets cornering me against a the side of a truck looking to full on attack me (which I have had the latter happen)

Thanks for getting back to me Dr Ann.

@ABCScience

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Doug, Dr Ann doesn't check these comments, but we'll pass on your suggestion.

"The difference between prey and play is nothing." -- who wrote this? It's true that play for carnivores can include behaviours that would harm a person -- but that doesn't make predation and play identical, or even similar, behavioral systems

You just blew my mind!! they can look over their shoulder?!!

Thank you grear information

I've heard it said that dingoes are actually one of the smartest breeds of wild dog in the world

Cute. Thank you for the video. : )

I don't think "Elaine" (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) was making direct fun of Australians (just the accent). Her character was making fun of the annoying lady who kept mentioning her fiance. She wanted to shut her up by highlighting how silly she sounded. And did.

Just adore anne always funny and interesting but so easy to look at too 🤫😉

9 years old (1988) - family bought a piece of acreage - 3 acres - dryish forested land near Tambourine Mountain near the Gold Coast Australia. No house - but we'd go down and spend the weekend camping. One day - a strange small dogo came to visit. It actually looked just like a dingo - but it was friendly. We kept it and took it back to Brisbane. He became my best friend. We'd go everywhere together. After a year or so - He became a bit aggressive to people he didn't know - nipping at strangers - and my parents had to get rid of him (which REALLY upset me at the time).

Ann Jones is awesome!

Hello Anne not dingo related but do you know what to feed a baby yellow throated minor bird resuce it from seagull has taken bit of water n Weetabix seems happy enough thanks for any help , dingo cross breed's are the pests that need caution Jeff

00:54 Blue Heelers have Dingo in the breed, it is literally what makes them a Heeler...

Question: Was the clever escapist dingo an isolated instance or are dingos generally very intelligent?

Dingoes are famous for eating students homework.

So my sister adopted a dog during 2020 and when they did a DNA test they found out he’s a Carolina dog. According to the website the Carolina dog is basically the American equivalent of a dingo. However, while the dingo cannot be domesticated, the Carolina Dog *can* be domesticated but is also just fine being feral.

"There no where near as bad acting" 🔥 👊🏿😆

Dingoes are smarter than I am.

The Dingo's little shnoot 😂

Should look at the South American Maned Wolf. It has a unique roar-bark.

I dont know about the domestic dog being more dangerous, those statistics dont acount for the fact most of us never even see a dingo in real life .

Crikey. I'm addicted to watching Ann's part of the screen and not the animal video. Wish I could meet her.

Thank you Dr Ann, just been watching you with a lot more deadly creatures than dingoes. Thank you liked both.

Lol...Stealing the tea. My dingo is obsessed with drinking tea. I cannot leave a cup tea around as she will drink it and pull the tab of the tea bag and eat the teabag. When I buy sugar, she watches where I store the sugar bag lol.... She will not touch a cup of coffee but there is something in tea she loves.

@moragmacgregor6792

3 жыл бұрын

You're beautiful 🌻

My dog once pushed a chair across my family's kitchen to access the counter and eat 4 dozen Christmas cookies my mom made while we were out. Ill never forget that.

Last dingo doggo was ready to be domesticated.

This girl has strange behavior. Is this normal in Australia? Thank you for the great spider footage.

They make great pets. Muttley died on his 18th birthday. He was my shadow and we were apart for 9 days in 18yrs.

Probably not deadly but an important part in our ecological diversity is the Antechinus aka the marsupial mice! I sometime see these on my property in SE QLD and they're rare as! Never one to bait but capture and release. They love my goat food and I've captured a few interactions on cctv

@ABCScience

3 жыл бұрын

YES!

We called them Warrigal.

Wait, what was the tool the dingo used to get out? It's mouth? Honestly asking. My family has had a lot of german shepherds and a couple of em over the years were extremely smart! My mom had to start using padlocks on the dog run & kennel bc one of em learned to open ever other type of latch/locking mechanism we tried, crazy smart dog! Then I had an unrelated GS in a different household when I became an adult, this dog would literally watch our every move to figure out how the gates, etc worked and as soon as we turn our back she'd go try to mimic what we'd done, 9/10x successfully I sure do miss those pups!

@mjh5437

Жыл бұрын

Horses do that too.

Ann Jones seems like Steve Irwin's long lost cousin. She should get her own Show on animal planet. Highly entertained.

I did not know that a dingo howled! It sounds exactly like a wolf! I thought they were something like a... hyena.

Dingo sounds like the Aussie corruption of Doggo 🙂 0:09

On Frasier Island i would be more worried about the Funnel Web spiders than the dingos

@moragmacgregor6792

3 жыл бұрын

NO KIDDING!!

My kids want Tassie devils, possum and goannas please

@ABCScience

3 жыл бұрын

Great suggestions!

ICYMI: Dr Ann Jones is starring in her first one-hour documentary - Catalyst, Kill or Cure: The Story of Venom - where she visits the wildlife on K'gari (Fraser Island). Don't worry, she didn’t operate the camera 😉 Australians can watch the doco live on ABC TV at Tues 9 March, 8.30pm, or on-demand here: ab.co/2nFL0tp

@Boajhdk

3 жыл бұрын

Haha

@annjones2337

3 жыл бұрын

Omg I feel attacked.

@denisp.2308

3 жыл бұрын

Please do How deadly on polar bears!!!

so, essentially, dingoes are chill so long as you don't mess with em.

We have one that sleeps on our bed with the cat , very emotional animals and pick up on the emotional state of those around them and can be territorial

Hey Australia , STOP killing the Dingoes and your mouse problem will go away . Leave the Dingoes alone , they are not pest .

I saw a dingo up close at a wild life sanctuary and it was SO CUTE!! 🥰 No way could they be dangerous! I think you have the wrong animal...

Does Dr. Ann Jones have social media accounts? Like instagram perhaps? I'm currently a freshwoman studying BS Environmental Science and I find her explaining really soothing and it makes me excited more in my field! I'm new to this channel and I'm already aspiring to be like her. I want to follow her!

@ABCScience

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Shumi Lim, sure! This is Ann on Insta 👉 @_annjones_

@mrsmacca126

3 жыл бұрын

Seriously- a fresh woman??? Get OVER yourself

i have a “domestic” dog pack that occasionally has a pack mentality and, when they get to fighting, i have to get in and brake them up. i don’t go to the doctor for my injuries though i do take the dogs that need it to the vet. i am trying to rehome one of them but, i haven’t found anyone to take her that is trustworthy. i have changed the routine of the one who is always whooped and keep her with me so she is never alone with the rest of the pack. that has pretty much stopped all of the fighting. the last fight, i got bit very badly on the left wrist. had someone wrap it for me and headed to the vet with a severely wounded Streak. She had to stay there for a week. i think i could easily play within a pack of dingoes and keep the alpha position.

underrated seriers

I love ABC science

What about the Rikali (or water rat), quokkers on Rottnest Island -- or quolls - or Tasmanian Devils

The two-legged ones are worse.

"A dingo ate my baby..."

The dingoes actually did eat her baby.

To what extent do the dingos control the feral rabbit, feral cat, and for that matter, those wheat and hay despoiling mice?

Why am I so attracted to Dr. Jones? xD

I use to raise Red/Blue Heelers cross,,, the absolute best. And crossing them the pups were all much larger than their parents. Super smart...great companions. NOT dangerous at all. One thing I have noticed in all of the video's on Dingoes is the failure to mention the strength of their jaws, the exaggerated jaw muscles. Mine were able to easily crush a tennis ball flat and break a stick about an inch or more in diameter easily.

@downundanow5569

Жыл бұрын

Dogs of any breed can be dangerous :) There used to be a blue heeler in the next street that was allowed to roam. I walked down the sunny side of the street and it was laying there. It heard me, got up and growled at me. I 'bigged' myself up and tried to intimidate it and it just growled some more and slowly walked towards me, hunched up ready to attack. This was in the days before you could ring up the council and make a complaint. Years later I also had a German Shepherd do the same thing to me, and the council sent a Dog Control person out. I had a working line GSD myself at the time so I wasn't being paranoid about a 'nasty German Shepherd' I just wanted the council to come and get it and stop giving GSD's a bad name. p.s., my GSD took two, maybe three bites to destroy a tennis ball.

Smart trying to opening lol

The last vid was an Alpine dingo cross red, there's a few types of dingo

Lots of self-obsessed Dr. Ann - not much dingo

That’s interesting that sounds like their pack structure aren’t like wolf pack structures at all

Dingoes are descended from domesticated dogs, i.e., feral turning wild.

@stevenschulte1475

3 жыл бұрын

No they are not.

@roxyiconoclast

Жыл бұрын

“The earliest known dingo fossil, found in Western Australia, dates to 3,450 years ago. However, genomic analysis indicates that the dingo reached Australia 8,300 years ago but the human population which brought them remains unknown.” - Wikipedia

That yowl they do is very similar to the Coyote in North America.

This is maybe the least harmful animal in Australia. LOL

raised 3 dingoes over my time, the most recent was as pure as they come these days, were all dna tested. Biggest problem is their constant love and devotion to the pack ,of which YOU need to be dominant 24/7. Like training a cat, bloody useless. But just like my camels, once you bond it becomes the focus of your life.

she really was afraid to missgender a dingo

My amstaff can look over it shoulder .

their fur looks so shiny

had a 70% cross as probably my first dog was smart fast active and friendly to me my friends and most animals, but was also fast active and hostile to anyone creeping about aggressive to me or in anyway threatening to him. Wild dingo generally shy and no threat. but are intelligent and curious, you shouldnt feed wild ones can be friendly even when wild but they arnt, they are cunning will take an opportunity from you if it works for them or against you, anything they can get away with they will. they arnt overly big, dont have overly sized teeth but they are strong fast and those teeth are pin point sharp, also even if you see one or maybe even two you can be sure there are at least a few more watching