Dingoes (Canis lupus dingo)

[Balam]

My favorites extant canid

" ‘A juvenile Australian dingo licks the face of its pack leader in typical submissive behaviour. This behaviour is crucial to maintaining hierarchy in a dingo pack; to not show respect to a pack leader would end in the young dingo being disciplined by not only the leader but the whole pack. This image of wild dingoes was captured in an area of the Great Sandy Desert in western Australia where this group live on the edge of a remote gold mining operation. Interestingly, the mining operators have put strategies in place so as not to allow the dingoes to obtain food and water to make sure the dingoes remain reliant on their own survival skills.’ - @gaz_meredith_images


Gary Meredith is a wildlife photographer based in western Australia. He spends his time photographing wildlife that has adapted to human-modified environments, capturing unseen behaviour of birds in the western Australian desert as well as photographing and advocating for the protection of Australia’s native canid, the dingo. In #WPY56, he was highly commended in the Urban Wildlife category for his characterful portrait of two possums."

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