Posted on 12/18/2010 1:42:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
TRAPPED by a dingo on a North Coast beach, the wallaby's survival instincts have it bolting for the waves. But that wasn't enough to save the marsupial.
As a stunned Alan Hanson watched, the dingo-cross charged into the shore break and lunged at the wallaby's tail.
"It was incredibly powerful," Mr Hanson - who took these pictures - said.
"It dragged the wallaby to the sand by the tail and was slamming it on to the ground. It then just went for the throat."
Video: Did a dingo really do it? We'll never know
Mr Hanson had been beachcombing at Sandon Beach, near Yamba, on low tide when he first saw the wallaby standing in shallow water.
"They head to water to escape danger - usually its a swamp or a creek, not the Pacific Ocean," said the 56-year-old retiree, who lives at nearby Wooli.
"The dingo was a mongrel - we don't have purebreds here. It eventually dragged the wallaby up into the dunes.
"I've only seen three on the beach and they are very wary of humans."
"Even when this was happening if I got too close the dingo would stop and back away."
I thought that dingos were too busy stealing human babies to hunt.
And the saltwater croc got both of ‘em.
See. Every problem has a multi-disciplanary engineering solution. And not all of them require explosives!
/johnny
Anytime you can get the words Dingo and Wallaby in the same thread title, you get a free ping !
I have had dingoes as pets. I can easily believe this. It was just the exact way my dingoes would kill their prey.
2d: That beach-boy Dingo looks like the result of a one-night stand with a Dingo and and Corgi. Don't Aussies have any respect for Mother Nature? How can this be permitted? And aren't Wallabies supposed to be tied down or something?
3rd: I totally believe that woman who was portrayed in the dingo Movie by Meryl Streep. A Dingo Ite her Bibe-ee. No Doutaboutit, Might.
“The dingo ate your baby!!”
Looks more like a German Shepard to me.
We have an Australian Cattle Dog which is supposed to be part dingo. He does have a wild edge to him. When he was a youngster he wanted to eat our granddaughter so we did a lot of alpha wolf on him and now she is his pack leader. Smartest dog we’ve ever had. Once in a crowded campground he lunged at a youngster. We called him over and I chewed him out and told him to go apologize and he went to the child’s mother and groveled at her feet. It was amazing to watch. He understands complete sentences. Once I saw him looking at me and asked him whether he had eaten lately. He went across two rooms and checked his food dish and looked at me as if to say “no.” Of course he was lying but then, he’s a dog.
That Wallaby looks mighty like a Kraut Guard Dog, to me too.
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