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Dingoes at the Doorstep: Home Range Sizes and Activity Patterns of Dingoes and Other Wild Dogs around Urban Areas of North-Eastern Australia

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School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland 4343, Australia
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FeralsOut, Kippa-Ring, Queensland 4021, Australia
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Robert Wicks Pest Animal Research Centre, Biosecurity Queensland, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Toowoomba, Queensland 4350, Australia
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Institute for Agriculture and the Environment, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland 4350, Australia
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Animals 2016, 6(8), 48; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani6080048
Received: 29 April 2016 / Revised: 14 June 2016 / Accepted: 11 August 2016 / Published: 16 August 2016
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wildlife-human interactions in urban landscapes)
Top-predators around the world are becoming increasingly intertwined with humans, sometimes causing conflict and increasing safety risks in urban areas. In Australia, dingoes and dingo×domesticdoghybridsarecommoninmanyurbanareas,andposeavarietyofhumanhealth and safety risks. However, data on urban dingo ecology is scant. We GPS-collared 37 dingoes in north-easternAustraliaandcontinuouslymonitoredthemeach30minfor11–394days. Mostdingoes were nocturnal, with an overall mean home range size of 17.47 km2. Overall mean daily distance travelled was 6.86 km/day. At all times dingoes were within 1000 m of houses and buildings. Home ranges appeared to be constrained to patches of suitable vegetation fragments within and around human habitation. These data can be used to reallocate dingo management effort towards mitigating actual conflicts between humans and dingoes in urban areas. View Full-Text
Keywords: adaptive kernel; Canis lupus dingo; habitat use; human–carnivore conflict; predator management; stray dog; urban ecology adaptive kernel; Canis lupus dingo; habitat use; human–carnivore conflict; predator management; stray dog; urban ecology
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McNeill, A.T.; Leung, L.K.-P.; Goullet, M.S.; Gentle, M.N.; Allen, B.L. Dingoes at the Doorstep: Home Range Sizes and Activity Patterns of Dingoes and Other Wild Dogs around Urban Areas of North-Eastern Australia. Animals 2016, 6, 48. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani6080048

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McNeill AT, Leung LK-P, Goullet MS, Gentle MN, Allen BL. Dingoes at the Doorstep: Home Range Sizes and Activity Patterns of Dingoes and Other Wild Dogs around Urban Areas of North-Eastern Australia. Animals. 2016; 6(8):48. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani6080048

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McNeill, Alice T., Luke K.-P. Leung, Mark S. Goullet, Matthew N. Gentle, and Benjamin L. Allen. 2016. "Dingoes at the Doorstep: Home Range Sizes and Activity Patterns of Dingoes and Other Wild Dogs around Urban Areas of North-Eastern Australia" Animals 6, no. 8: 48. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani6080048

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