The animals of Australia : mammals, reptiles and amphibians / by A.H.S. Lucas ; assisted by W.H. Dudley Le Souëf.
- Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas
- Date:
- 1909
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The animals of Australia : mammals, reptiles and amphibians / by A.H.S. Lucas ; assisted by W.H. Dudley Le Souëf. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![n trained mount, and finishes his career with a waddy. The Dingo will run into a bush or under a log when exhausted, and allow himself to be caught or destroyed, for he can then make no further resistance. An undoubted nuisance from his depre- dations in sheep-country, he is destroyed by any means available, perhaps most fre(iuently by meat bait carrying strychnine. Dingo. Mi'lb. Zoo. The Warrigal, as be Avas called by the blacks, has been to an extent domesticated by them. “On Herbert River,” says Lumholtz, “there are rai-ely moi-e than one or tAVO Dingoes in each tribe, and as a rule they are of ]uire Idood. The natives find them as puppies in the bolloAV trunks of trees, and rear them Avith greater care than they lu'stoAV on their OAvn children. The Dingo is an important member of the family; it sleeps in the huts and gets ]fienty to eat, not only of meat, but also of fruit. Its master never strikes, but merely threatens it. He caresses it like a child, and kisses it on the mouth. Though the Dingo is treated so Avell it often runs aAvay, especially in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28108759_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
