Richard Collins: Wild and captive dingoes compared to domestic dogs

Researchers have found that dingoes are maintaining their identity and are challenging the view that pure dingoes are on the decline due to cross-breeding

Dingo on Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia

"I have never seen a case more governed by human frailties," declared Tony Jones, pathologist at the Chamberlain dingo trial.

On the night of August 18, 1980, Lindy Chamberlain, her husband, and their nine-week-old daughter Azaria, were camping at Uluru, ’Ayer’s Rock’, in the Australian outback. Lindy spotted a dingo running from the tent where Azaria was sleeping. The child’s cot was empty. "My god, my god, the dingo has got my baby," she screamed.