Australia’s dingoes may keep feral cats in check and protect wildlife

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By Ruby Prosser Scully ​

Dingoes are cunning predators and no friend to Australian sheep farmers, but they’ll also play a pivotal position in suppressing the sequence of feral cats that devastate the nation’s flowers and fauna.

That that it’s seemingly you’ll perchance acquire feral cats in precisely about every allotment of Australia. They’ve contributed to the extinction of 20 native mammals and threatened many extra. As such, they’re seen as a pest by many contributors.

Dingoes are a pest too, in the eyes of many sheep farmers. They arrived in Australia between 5000 and 10,000 years in the past and like a flash …