The Role of Socialisation in the Taming and Management of Wild Dingoes by Australian Aboriginal People
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Abstract
1. Introduction
2. History of Dingo Attacks in Non-Indigenous Australia
3. Aboriginal People and Wild Dingo Predation
On an occasion when his party was camped near a group of nomadic aborigines a baby from the group, about twelve months old, was carried off by a semi-domesticated dingo. Mr Perron’s party recovered the partly eaten remains of the baby.([68], pp. 280–281)
Dingoes howled on the sandhills all night through, and sometimes came in to the siding and killed the settlers’ goats and fowls: the natives told me that before the days of the white man, they had been known to slink in to the breakwind shelters at Uldilgabbi and attack the babies.([80], p. 177)
4. Behaviour of Modern Captive Dingoes
Of those [native] dogs we have had many which were taken when young, but never could cure them of their natural ferocity … I had one which was a little puppy when caught, but, not-withstanding I took much pains to correct and cure it of its savageness, I found it took every opportunity … to snap off the head of a fowl, or worry a pig, and would do it in defiance of correction … I believe it to be impossible to cure that savageness, which all I have seen seem to possess.([10], p. 67)
In the days when they were kept as pets about the stations it was never safe to leave them unwatched. They would do immense mischief to any articles they could destroy, such as curtains and household linen, books and papers, and everything that was tearable; and perhaps the owner would see his pet meekly blinking on some soft mat or skin, stretched in the graceful attitude of rest as if it had been calmly sleeping for the past hour, to find, when he passed on to the side of the house, some dozen or more of his choice breeds of fowls and ducks with their heads nipped off. It is small wonder that the dingo has ceased to be a favourite throughout Australia.([91], p. 201)
5. Rearing and Socialisation of Camp Dingoes by Aboriginal People
5.1. Nurturing and Wet-Nursing
5.2. Rough-Handling
5.3. Corrective Behaviour
6. Oral Traditions and Cultural “Law” Informing Dingo Management
7. Historic and Pre-Contact Outcomes of Aboriginal Dingo Taming
They were usually bred in a domesticated state, and no puppies were ever destroyed. Wild young ones were also caught and domesticated. The dogs were trained to guard the wuurns [dwellings], which they did by growling and snarling … In watching they were vigilant and fierce. They would fly at the throats of visitors; and strangers had often to take refuge from them by climbing into a tree.([118], p. 89)
A large supply of the balyan root lay near them, and a dog so lean as scarcely to be able to stand, drew his feeble body close up beside the two children as if desirous to defend them. They formed indeed a miserable group, exhibiting nevertheless instances of affection and fidelity creditable both to the human and canine species.([107], p. 60)
Possible Archaeological Evidence for Long-Effects of Dingo Taming
8. Discussion and Conclusions
Implications for the Domestication of the Wolf
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Archaeological Site | Specimen ID | Estimated Age | Sex |
---|---|---|---|
CCLP Kurnell, NSW | BB4/F4 | >1.5 years | Est. F |
CCLP Kurnell, NSW | BB4/G5B | >1.5 years | Est. M |
Nundera Point, NSW | ANU Kioloa 01 | >1.5 years | M |
WOC-1 Lake Mungo, NSW | ANU Mu 01 | Adult | Est. F |
Lake Milkengay, NSW | ANU Milk 01 | >1.5 years | Est. F |
Murramarang, NSW | SHELL Mur 01 | ~6 months | F |
Murramarang, NSW | ANU Mur 02 | >1.5 years | M |
CSP-1 Mallacoota, VIC | ANU Mal 01 | >4 years | M |
CSP-1 Mallacoota, VIC | ANU Mal 02 | ~5 months | M |
Fromm’s Landing, SA | SAM Fromm 01 | ~5–6 months | M |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleBrumm, Adam, and Loukas Koungoulos. 2022. "The Role of Socialisation in the Taming and Management of Wild Dingoes by Australian Aboriginal People" Animals 12, no. 17: 2285. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12172285