THE DINGO-WHENCE CAME HE?
LIGHT ON PRIMAL TIMES
To a good many people the origin of the Australian dingo, of which specimens are to be seen in the Newtown Zoological Gardens, is a bit of a mystery. The dingo is an Australian inhabitant of long standing, but obviously he is separated by a great gulf from the marsupial familv whose members preponderate in the list of Australian fauna.
Mr. A. Le Soeuf, director of the Sydney ''Zoo," mentioned incidentally, the other day, that the ancestors of . the dingo were undoubtedly introduced into .Australia when the progenitors of the mainland Australian blacks arrived in the great island continent. In excavations made in pursuance of scientific research no traces of dingo remains have been found at any great depth. Xo doubt the animal had inhabited Australia for thousands of years, but, in comparison with the characteristically Australian marsupials, the kangaroo, the wallaby, and others, the dingo is quito a modern intruder. Village dogs of low type, which bear a closo family resemblance to the dingo arc to bo found in sonic parts of India at the present day.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1110, 25 April 1911, Page 6
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186THE DINGO-WHENCE CAME HE? Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1110, 25 April 1911, Page 6
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