Filmed in the Northern Territory, Australia. Steve was picking up some soil when he spotted the albino dingo. Learning from myself (carrying a camera practically everywhere I go), he grabbed his camera and only just caught a few seconds of it. Unfortunately the wild dog's red eyes are unable to be seen in the footage, hopefully Steve might get another chance to catch it in time to film it's eyes. The video has been slowed as well as zoomed. This was a great opportunity to test out the AVS Video Editor program which I am finding to be quiet a fantastic program. Hope you like!
Dingos are a problem for farmers stalking / killing livestock, especially the young, even as mothers are giving birth! As the population of Darwin grows and spills out into new surrounding bushland, dingoes become accustomed to human presence and have been reported to stalk people (mostly children as smaller), attack and / grab family pets out of residents yard, as well as attack people. As food becomes more scarce the presence of the dingos become more predominant in some Australian urban areas.
Nomenclature The dingo has several names in both scientific and non-scientific literature, of which the word dingo is the most common term. Furthermore, on the Australian continent, the term wild dog is now used very often in both areas. In most cases this term includes dingoes, dingo-hybrids, and all other feral dogs.[3][4]
Scientific nameSince its first official nomenclature in 1792 (Canis antarcticus), the scientific name of the dingo has changed several times.[2]
Current taxonomy classifies the Australian dingo, together with its closest relatives outside of Australia, as Canis lupus dingo, a subspecies of gray wolf separate from the familiar common dog, Canis lupus familiaris, while still united with familiaris as intra-taxonomic clade called "[domestic dog]".[2] An older taxonomy, used throughout most of the twentieth century, applied the epithet Canis familiaris dingo to the Dingo. This taxonomy assumed domestic dogs to be a distinct species from the gray wolf, with the Dingo classified as a subspecies of domestic dog. Furthermore, the terms "Canis dingo",[5][6] which classifies the dingo as a separate species from both dogs and wolves, and "Canis lupus familiaris var. "dingo"", which treats the dingo as a variety of the domesticated subspecies of Gray Wolf; are in use.[7]
Colloquial and Indigenous names The most common name in the colloquial language is "dingo". This term originated in the early times of European colonization in New South Wales and is most likely derived from the word "tingo", used by the aboriginal people of Port Jackson for their camp dogs.[8] Depending on the area where they live, the dingoes in Australia are occasionally called alpine dingoes, desert dingoes, northern dingoes, Cape York dingoes, or tropical dingoes. In recent times people have begun to call them "Australian native dogs"[9] or, reasoning that they are a subspecies of Canis lupus, an "Australian wolf".[10]
The dingo also has different names in the multitude of different Indigenous Australian languages. Those names include Joogong, Mirigung, Noggum, Boolomo, Papa-Inura, Wantibirri, Maliki, Kal, Dwer-da, Kurpany, Aringka, Palangamwari, Repeti and Warrigal.[3] Some languages provide for different names for the dingoes depending on where they live; the Yarralin, for instance, call the dingoes that live with them Walaku and the ones living in the wilderness Ngurakin.[11]
You can read more information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo
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Beautiful Dingoby AussieNatureChannel257 views
white dingos are cool
mcselect11 2 weeks ago
Hi mcselect1, White dingoes would be alot cooler if they weren't camera shy, lol!!!! Thanks so much for watching my video, have a great day!!!!
InAllFun 1 week ago