If you want to say which country is a paradise for wildlife, it is Australia. Wild animal infestation is not an uncommon thing for them, too many animals make their heads hurt. Hares numbered tens of billions, camels nibbled up the grass, and the country's postcard kangaroos were flooded and brought to the table. Even wild dogs are now in the realm of flooding.
The unremarkable pastoral dog in the mainland can become a local bearer in Australia and is one of the best hunters in the grasslands. In Australia, the number of wild dogs has reached more than 3 million. This number is not particularly scary, but the local government even pulled up 500 kilometers of fences to prevent wild dogs. What exactly did the wild dogs do?
Dingo
In fact, if these wild dogs live normally in the wild, there is no harm to the ecological environment. But these wild dogs are fierce by nature, and their hunting targets are usually farm cattle. They went out together to select the weak and small cattle in the procession to encircle them. The local farmers could not bear this, and even took the initiative to fight with wild dogs, and then the government ordered the implementation of dog extermination operations. In order to motivate people to kill dogs, hunting a hunting dog can earn a commission of seven dollars.
Farmers even caught wild dogs hanging around the fence of the cattle herd. Kill a hundred to warn the surrounding wild dogs not to come near. In the beginning, the dog extermination operation was indeed significant, but it did not solve the underlying problem after a long time. The wild dogs were already immune to the bodies of these compatriots, and perhaps the idea of avenging their compatriots had been derived.
A wild dog that does nothing wrong
On a private farm in South Australia, where cattle and sheep were once seen in the wind and meadows, the natural scenery is very pleasing. But as there were more wild dogs, cattle and sheep were gone, water was robbed, and farms were directly turned into places for wild dogs to rejoice. In less than half a year, there were 150 thousand sheep left, and the farmers suffered heavy losses.
Australia's agriculture department has also released official figures that wild dogs killed more than 10,000 sheep in 2018 alone, a number that directly doubled in 2019. As a result, Australia loses $100 million a year. Wild dogs even attack other animals, which can be described as no evil. For example, they will steal kangaroo cubs, ducks in the water, and they are simply the local underworld.
What exactly is the origin of the dingo?
Many people think that the dingo is actually like our field dog, but it is not. The dingo is neither a dog nor a wolf, it belongs to the subfamily of dingoes in the family Canidae. It's just that it's very similar to the mainland pastoral dog in terms of appearance and personality, so we will affectionately call it rhubarb.
This is a domestic animal brought by the Austronesian peoples of Asia 3,500 years ago, and in the eighteenth century domestic and native dogs began to mate, and after several generations of breeding, they evolved into today's Australian rhubarb. Their nature is much more ferocious than that of mainland rhubarb. They can even kill hundreds of poultry at a time with dozens of wild dogs, which can make the locals angry.
European wild dogs are larger than ordinary dogs, and generally weigh about 40 pounds. They are also social animals, although the combat effectiveness is not comparable to that of ferocious animals, but it is more than enough to deal with these docile animals in Australia. They are very smart, generally choose a place with a water source to rest, and even wait for the rabbit, but their feces will pollute the water source, which is not a good thing.
Don't dingoes have natural predators?
Australia is not as perilous as the African savannah. Australia does not have lions and tigers like beasts, most of them are kangaroos, koalas, which are relatively aggressive animal species that can be peacefully lived by. That's why wild dogs can reign supreme here.
In fact, there are also its natural enemies called thylacines, but the thylacines are now extinct. When European colonists conquered Australia, they began killing thylacines with artillery fire, just to protect their poultry from harm and reduce losses. Some hunters also added some charges to the thylacines, that they could hunt them without fear, but in fact to satisfy their own interests.
Wild dog (left) Thylacine (right)
In 1936, the last thylacine on earth also died, when it was placed in a zoo, but due to the carelessness of the caretaker, the thylacine was actually sunburned alive by the sun.
The complete extinction of the thylacine provided a paradise for Wild Dogs in Australia. It has to be said that the sins created by the predecessors must be borne by the descendants. Finally, the government pays for the killing of wild dogs through high-priced rewards.
So how do Australians deal with wild dogs?
The Australian government racked its brains to think of many ways to reduce the number of wild dogs, such as poisoning, setting up trap fences, strafing by helicopter, and so on. About 20,000 wild dogs are hunted and killed each year, but the government spends tens of thousands of dollars a year on rewards for the killing of wild dogs. And the corpses of these wild dogs cannot all be hung on the trees, so that over time not only can not give the wild dogs any threat, but the smell of rotting corpses is really unpleasant.
In order to make up for the financial loophole, the local government chose to make these dogs into canned for export to Southeast Asia and other countries, although Australian locals do not have the habit of eating dog meat, but there are more countries around the world that eat dog meat, such as China, South Korea and so on. This not only solves the problem of corpses polluting the environment, but also makes a lot of money. But the Australian wild dogs say to sell, so do you dare to say that you can eat it?
Australian wild dogs can be said to sell, wild animals may suffer from various diseases, infected with various bacterial virus parasites, the quality of meat and freshness is also difficult to control, it is difficult to pass the quarantine certification. And what is Australia's current relationship with China, and will the country choose to import? Will the people buy it?
Some netizens also said that looking for China to sell is not out of stereotypes, hidden discrimination? Some netizens said that they would definitely not buy it. I believe that the mainland will strictly control this food, but in case these canned dog meat with viruses are purchased by people in other underdeveloped countries, this is simply a naked harm.
Strictly speaking, Australia today should be called a wildlife hell, a paradise for exotic species, with indigenous ecosystems facing collapse and inaction, and poor public spending to protect rare animals, or even less than half of the continent's expenditure on panda protection.
Australian wild dogs are said to be flooded, in fact, the standard vulnerable animals, it is difficult to find purebred at present, if Australians play traditional arts to kill, probably in a few years there will be no such thing on the earth.