Australian Aboriginal culture

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 126. Chapters: Kangaroo, Didgeridoo, Dreamtime, Dingo, Bunyip, Boomerang, Uluru, Walkabout, Daramulum, Birrahgnooloo, Indigenous Australians, Tasmanian Aborigines, Black Theatre, Angas Downs Indigenous Protected Area, Cronulla sand dunes, Kurnell Peninsula, Prehistory of Australia, Ted Strehlow, Marn Grook, Australian Aboriginal astronomy, Goanna, Aboriginal sites of New South Wales, Australian Aboriginal kinship, Australian Aboriginal flag, Murujuga, Tjurunga, Indigenous Australian seasons, Indigenous All Stars, Watkin Tench, Australian Aboriginal English, Utopia, Northern Territory, Kaltukatjara, Northern Territory, Kurdaitcha, Songlines, Sydney rock engravings, Aboriginal Dugout Canoes, Australian Bustard, Australian Aboriginal sweet foods, Dreaming, Budj Bim, Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, Eneabba Stone Arrangement, Australian Aboriginal enumeration, Bogong moth, Jaara baby, Indigenous Australian food groups, Woggabaliri, Min Min light, Coolamon, Australian Aboriginal avoidance practices, Bush medicine, Noongar kin systems, Aboriginal deaths in custody, Bindibu Expedition, Pintupi Nine, Cummeragunja walk-off, Flinders Island Chronicle, Cyperus bulbosus, Aboriginal stone arrangement, Aborigines Advancement League, Gambu Ganuurru, Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World, Yara-ma-yha-who, Honeypot ant, Message stick, Cummeragunja Mission, Self-determination of Australian Aborigines, Bora, Corroboree, Hindmarsh Island Royal Commission, The Deadlys, Avoidance speech, Maban, Umbarra, Aputula, Northern Territory, Bush Mechanics, Australian Aboriginal Pidgin English, Birrguu Matya, Spinifex resin, Aborigines Progressive Association, Kuka Kanyini, Humpy, Vigna lanceolata, Waddy, Kaytetye, Thaayorre people, Koori Mail, Australian Aboriginal artifacts, Ochre Pits, Yirra Yaakin, Koonalda Cave, Abo Call, Descendance, Barapa Baraba people, Aboriginal Evangelical Fellowship, National Reconciliation Week, Guruwari, Jagardoo : Poems from Aboriginal Australia, Puckowe. Excerpt: The Australian Dingo or Warrigal is a free-roaming wild dog unique to the continent of Australia, mainly found in the outback. Its original ancestors are thought to have arrived with humans from southeast Asia thousands of years ago, when dogs were still relatively undomesticated and closer to their wild Asian Gray Wolf parent species, Canis lupus. Since then, living largely apart from people and other dogs, together with the demands of Australian ecology, has caused them to develop features and instincts that distinguish them from all other canines. Dingoes have maintained ancient characteristics that unite them, along with other primitive dogs, into a taxon named after them, Canis lupus dingo, and has separated them from the domestic dog, Canis lupus familiaris. Dingoes play an important role in Australia's ecosystems; they are apex predators and the continent's largest terrestrial predator. Because of their attacks on livestock, dingoes and other wild dogs are seen as pests by the sheep industry and the resultant control methods normally run counter to dingo conservation efforts. Today, it is estimated that the majority of the modern "dingoes" are also descended from other domestic dogs. The number of these so-called dingo hybrids has increased significantly over the last decades, and the dingo is therefore now classified as vulnerable. The dingo has several names in both scientific and non-scientific l...