Research suggests that more than half of Australia’s dingoes are genetically pure, not hybrids

Finding has implications for the ways that Australia’s native canid – including the extent to which they are culled – are managed

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Most dingoes in Australia are pure dingoes rather than hybrids, new research suggests.

New genetic analysis shows that a significantly greater proportion of wild dingo populations are purer than previously thought, with less dog lineage than scientists once estimated.

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