Dingoes and sheep in pastoral areas

Authors

P C. Thomson

Keywords

Dingoes

Disciplines

Behavior and Ethology | Other Animal Sciences | Sheep and Goat Science

First Page Number

27

Last Page Number

31

ISSN

0021-8618

Abstract

Since 1975, a long-term study of dingoes in the Fortescue River area of northern Western Australia has sought to provide the detailed information necessary to devise efficient dingo management strategies.

Dingoes have been fitted with radio-transmitter collars, then tracked and observed from a specially equipped aircraft. Their movements, breeding, hunting and social behaviour have been monitered in the rugged, spinifex-covered ironstone terrain which represents typicaldingo refuge country, and in neighbouring sheep country.

Although the pastoral and agricultural industry have long recognised the need to control dingoes to protect livestock, particularily sheep, there is little published evidence about the type of damage and the extent of losses caused by dingoes.

Recommended Citation

Thomson, P C. (1984) "Dingoes and sheep in pastoral areas," Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4: Vol. 25: No. 1, Article 13.
Available at: https://library.dpird.wa.gov.au/journal_agriculture4/vol25/iss1/13