Editing Dingo (section)

==== Interactions with humans ====

[[File:Dingo Fraser Is.jpg|thumb|Dingo, Fraser Island, Queensland]]

The first [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] colonists who settled at [[Port Jackson]], in 1788, recorded the dingo living with [[Aboriginal Australians|indigenous Australians]],<ref name="tench1789" /> and later at [[Melville Island (Australia)|Melville Island]], in 1818. Furthermore, they were noted at the lower [[Darling River|Darling]] and [[Murray River|Murray]] rivers in 1862, indicating that the dingo was possibly semi-domesticated (or at least utilised in a "[[symbiotic]]" manner) by aboriginal Australians.<ref name="Jackson2019" /> When livestock farming began expanding across Australia, in the early 19th century, dingoes began preying on sheep and cattle. Numerous population-control measures have been implemented since then, including a nation-wide fencing project, with only limited success.<ref name="smithC5" />

[[File:1208 To Alice Springs - Baby Dingo.jpg|thumb|right|Dingoes are sometimes kept as pets, although their tendencies as wild animals are difficult to suppress.]]

Dingoes can be tame when they come in frequent contact with humans.<ref name="DoritAusdruck" /> Furthermore, some dingoes live with humans. Many [[indigenous Australians]] and early European settlers lived alongside dingoes. Indigenous Australians would take dingo pups from the den and tame them until sexual maturity and the dogs would leave.<ref name=Coppinger>{{Cite book|last=Coppinger|first=Raymond and Lorna|title=Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior, & Evolution|year=2001|publisher=Scribner|location=New York|isbn=978-0-684-85530-1|pages=45, 67}}<!--|access-date=29 May 2013--></ref> 

According to David Jenkins, a research fellow at [[Charles Sturt University]], the breeding and reintroduction of pure dingoes is no easy option and, as of 2007, there were no studies that seriously dealt with this topic, especially in areas where dingo populations are already present.<ref name="dilution">{{Cite web|author=Beeby, Rosslyn |title=Genetic dilution dogs dingoes|url=http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/environment/genetic-dilution-dogs-dingoes/666292.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415072636/http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/environment/genetic-dilution-dogs-dingoes/666292.aspx|archive-date=2009-04-15|work=The Canberra Times|date=7 February 2007|access-date=14 May 2009}}</ref>