Why do dingos attack people on Fraser Island?

Why do dingos attack people on Fraser Island? Note a dingo is a Asian wolf.

Why do dingos attack people on Fraser Island? Many species of mammalian carnivore like dingos are highly adaptable, and soon learn that human settlements are sources of food, water and shelter.

The influence of disease can increase wolves like dingos aggression, two common factors associated with attacks are that they often happen in human-modified environments, and by animals that get used to human presence.

Fraser Island has both these factors present.

These human resources can have a profound effect on the behaviour of wild animals. Abundant human food often reduces animals’ aggression towards one another, and can result in the presence of larger packs of dingos being present near camp sites.

Waste food may inadvertently entice dingos to campsites, and this may lead to predators becoming habituated to human presence. In Canada, a young man became a victim to a wolf attack at a mine site, the local wolves get used to humans, and even follow rubbish trucks to the tip. It is believed they may have come to associate human smells with the provision of food.

Animals that are habituated to humans lose some of their natural wariness towards them. This is typical of many animal species that adapt to urban habitats, and while this may be an appealing trait in rabbits or birds, it can be quite different if the animal is a predator capable of attacking a human like a dingo.

In Australia, dingo attacks have taken place since man and dingo first lived side by side, in recent years a woman in North Western Australia was severely wounded by dingos in an attack near a mine site , she was save after extensive surgery.

Why do dingos attack people on Fraser Island? Care and respect need to be shown to wildlife present in forests and reserves in Australia, remember the bush is their home and you are visiting them. Do not feed wildlife, keep your children close.  

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