From: "Brian Walters"
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:34 -0500, "Walt Gilbert" <[email protected]> wrote:
Nice shots, Brian!
Like others, I do like the second one best. I don't know if they're all
very similar in appearance, but that one has a deceptively domesticated
look about it. They're pretty handsome beasts compared to the mangy
coyotes we have around here.
And just think how notable an event it would've been in NZ!
(Also, I like that word, "fossicking" -- had to look it up.)
That's interesting. I thought 'fossicking' was international in meaning
but a bit of Googling suggests it originated in Cornwall and probably
got into Australia via Cornish miners.
Yes, dingos all look more or less like the one in the photo. They look
like domesticated dogs because they have the same origin. It's thought
that dingos arrived in Aus several thousand years ago with people
migrating from the north when sea levels were lower. Those thousands of
years of isolation have caused them to develop into a stable 'breed'.
One of the things I like about the list is all the new things I learn
looking up other stuff that catches my interest while reading the list,
and where it takes me from there.
Just yesterday, while enjoying the patter of rain-drops on my window, I
read about Dingos, Dogs, Coyotes, Pleistocene/Holocene boundary, Dire
Wolves, Isostatic Rebound, and Brumbys, Chincoteague Ponies & Banker Horses.
It seems that a number of "wild" dogs resemble the Dingo, even one of
our own, the Carolina Dog, which I had never heard of until I hit the
link from the Wikipedia article on Dingos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Dog
There's speculation that the Dingo form represents *the* primitive dog,
what the dog looked like some 15,000 plus years ago when it was first
domesticated; a natural "breed standard" if you will.
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